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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia kasungu Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brownish-black, setae white; ocellar tubercle apruinose; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, brown setae ventrally; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly yellow pruinose, margins silver pruinose, 2 narrow median stripes, originating at anterior margin, and 2 lateral spots, not reaching anterior and posterior margins, apruinose, short yellow setae medially, white setae on margins; macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 black supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, white
Legs: yellow and dark brown; prothoracic femora in proximal 2/3 yellow, distal third brown, mesothoracic femora in proximal third yellow, distal 2/3 brown, metathoracic femora in proximal half pale yellow, clubbed, club brown, setae white; tibiae brown and dark brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae anteriorly; first tarsomere in proximal 2/3 pale yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, black setae; empodium distinct, very short
Wings: cells c, sc, br, and bm with few microtrichiae, remaining cells densely covered with microtrichiae, less microtrichiae along veins, brown stained; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; tergites brown pruinose, grey pruinose laterally, T1 with long white setae laterally, T2 medially with white setae, remaining tergites with white and brown setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally and slightly expanded dorsally; hypandrium bent upwards; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, blunt; lateral apodeme simple, slightly expanded proximally.