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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia tsavo Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown to black, setae white; ocellar tubercle silver pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, white setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose in proximal half and ventrally; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly yellow pruinose, silver pruinose on margins, 2 circular antero-lateral spots, 2 triangular medio-lateral spots, and 2 triangular spots just posterior to transverse suture apruinose, 2 narrow median stripes not reaching posterior margin sometimes apruinose too (not always distinct), short yellow and white setae on pruinose part; macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 black supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, brown
Legs: orange to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora yellow proximally, light brown distad, metathoracic femora in proximal half pale yellow, clubbed, distal half of club brown, setae white; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae light brown, pale yellow stripe anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae proximally pale yellow, brown distad, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere pale yellow, distad light brown, remaining tarsomere brown, setae brown; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, but microtrichiae scattered on remigium, margins, and along veins; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T2 in proximal half grey and in distal half brown pruinose, T1 with brown setae, T2 in proximal half with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short yellow and brown setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, divided into 2 lobes, sclerite just anterior to distal tip; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, blunt; lateral apodeme simple.