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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia prolata Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
Media
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown, setae white; ocellar tubercle apruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, brown setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly apruinose, grey pruinosity restricted to margins, yellow setae with distinct alveoli scattered on surface, leaving median stripes and lateral spots uncovered; macrosetae: white, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellum grey pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, white
Legs: yellow to brown; femora yellow, brown medially, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, clubbed, club brown; tibiae brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium about a quarter of length of claws
Wings: hyaline; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; brown pruinose, lateral margins grey pruinose, T1 with long brown setae laterally, T2 in proximal third with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short white and brown setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, slightly divided into 2 lobes; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, lateral processes of dorsal aedeagal sheath short, extending gonopore; lateral apodeme simple.