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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia plebeja (Janssens, 1957)
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, 4 macrosetae, as long or longer than proboscis; ocellar tubercle yellow pruinose dorsally; occiput yellow pruinose, few white setae
Antennae: scape and pedicel brown, setae dark brown; postpedicel brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: brown; scutum hump-backed, red-brown, entirely covered with white pruinosity, 3 indistinct median stripes shine through the pruinosity, macrosetae: yellow, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; very few setae on anepisternum directing anteriorly; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae very short
Legs: yellow to brown; femora light brown, metathoracic femora yellow proximally, clubbed; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae yellowish-brown, metathoracic tibiae brown; empodium long, longer than half of length of claws
Wings: microtrichiae densely arranged on remigium; pterostigma distinct, brown; vein R4 bulging anteriorly constricting cell r2+3, discal cell terminating in 3 veins; halteres yellow
Abdomen: yellow or brown; tergites white pruinose, T1 with white setae, remaining tergites with short white and brown setae, sternites white pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium ventral margin straight; gonostyli large, prominent structure arising from proximal hypandrium; dorsal aedeagal sheath tubular, very long (extending male terminalia); lateral apodeme simple.