Euscelidia vallis Dikow, 2003
Head: black; face yellow pruinose, silver pruinose around mystax, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brownish-black, setae white; ocellar tubercle apruinose; occiput silver pruinose (dorsal part less pruinose with some apruinose spots), setae white and yellowish
Antennae: scape brown, white 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 brown pruinose, lateral and posterior margins silver pruinose, 2 lateral stripes, not reaching anterior and posterior margins, slightly apruinose, few short white setae on margins; macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 black supra-alar seta, 1 black pal; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, brown
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora yellow, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, remaining part brown, clubbed, club with brown stripe laterally, setae white; prothoracic tibiae yellow, mesothoracic and metathoracic tibiae brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae anteriorly; first tarsomere in proximal 2/3 pale yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae, cell br with only few microtrichiae; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; tergites brown pruinose dorsally, grey pruinose laterally, T1 with long white and brown setae laterally, white and brown setae on remaining T, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, divided into 2 lobes; dorsal aedeagal sheath open, extending gonopore, lateral processes of dorsal aedeagal sheath rounded; lateral apodeme simple.
The species is distinguished from congeners by the predominantly brown pruinose scutum, the densely arranged microtrichiae on the wings, and features of the male terminalia. This species is part of the brunnea species-group.
Type locality: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Mhlopeni Nature Reserve (29°00'S 030°25'E).
Afrotropical Region: South Africa.
See this map for an up-to-date distribution map based on specimen records from numerous museum collections.