Euscelidia senegalensis Dikow, 2003
Head: black; face yellow 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 brown
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly apruinose, silver pruinosity restricted to anterior, lateral, and posterior margins, yellow setae scattered on scutum; macrosetae: white, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, white
Legs: yellow to brown; femora light brown, metathoracic femora pale yellow in proximal half, clubbed, club brown; tibiae light brown, brown stripe dorsally, 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: densely covered with microtrichiae, veins brown; pterostigma indistinct; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; tergites grey pruinose, distal tergites more brown pruinose dorsally, T1 with long yellow setae laterally, T2 in proximal half with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short white and yellow setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus not sharply pointed distally, rounded, lobe ventrally; hypandrium ventral margin straight; dorsal aedeagal sheath tubular, medium length; lateral apodeme bifurcated.
The species is distinguished from congeners by the predominantly apruinose scutum, the yellow setae scattered on the scutum, the densely arranged microtrichiae on the wings, and features of the male terminalia.
Type locality: Senegal, Ziguinchor (12°34'N 016°17'W).
Afrotropical Region: Senegal.
See this map for an up-to-date distribution map based on specimen records from numerous museum collections.