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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia crena Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity distinct, mystax white, 12 macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brownish-black, setae white; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, white setae ventrally; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel light brown proximally, brown distad, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: dark brown; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum black (female paratype with orange anterior and lateral margins), yellow pruinose medially, margins silver pruinose, 2 antero-lateral spots apruinose, 2 lateral spots anterior and posterior to transverse suture apruinose, but not as distinct as antero-lateral spots, few yellow or white setae on margins; macrosetae: white, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, white
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora yellow, metathoracic femora pale yellow in proximal half, clubbed, club light brown, setae white; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae light brown, pale yellow stripe anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae brown, pale yellow stripe in proximal half anteriorly; tarsomere light brown to brown, black setae; empodium long, about a quarter of length of claws
Wings: hyaline, few microtrichiae scattered on remigium and distal margin; pterostigma distinct, light brown; discal cell terminating in 3 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: Dark brown; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T1 with long white setae laterally, T2 in proximal third with few white setae laterally, remaining tergites with white and yellow setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium ventral margin straight; gonostyli large; dorsal aedeagal sheath tubular; aedeagal apodeme small; lateral apodeme triangular.