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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia pulchra Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face yellow pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown-black, setae white; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape dark brown, white setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel dark brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose proximally and ventrally; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly apruinose, yellow pruinosity restricted to anterior, lateral, and posterior margins, yellow setae with alveoli scattered on surface, leaving 2 narrow, median longitudinal stripes, fused after 1/3 of length and not reaching posterior margin, and 2 lateral spots, uncovered; macrosetae: white, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellum yellow pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, yellow
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora yellow proximally, orange distally, setae white, metathoracic femora in proximal 2/3 tubular, pale yellow, distal third distinctly clubbed, orange; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae brown, yellow proximally, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae yellow in proximal half, distal half brown; first tarsomere yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium about a third of length of claws
Wings: hyaline, very few microtrichiae on remigium, veins yellow in proximal half of wing, brown distally, C, Sc, and R1 completely pale yellow; pterostigma indistinct; discal cell terminating in 3 veins; halteres orange
Abdomen: black; tergites brown pruinose medially, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T2 anteriorly with apruinose spot, T1 with long white setae laterally, T2 in proximal third with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short white and yellow setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe dorsally and ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards; dorsal aedeagal sheath tubular, medium length, ventral aedeagal sheath expanded to form a plate; lateral apodeme bifurcated.