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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia peteraxi Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many short, rigid macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi dark brown, 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 light brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline with brown tip
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum black, sometimes orange on anterior margin, brown pruinose, margins silver pruinose, 2 narrow median longitudinal stripes, not reaching posterior margin, and 2 lateral stripes, not reaching anterior and posterior margins, apruinose, white setae on margins; macrosetae: white, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, white
Legs: yellow to brown; femora yellow proximally, brown distally, setae white, metathoracic femora clubbed, club with short white setae; tibiae proximally yellow, brown distad, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, brown stained, especially anterior and posterior to r-m, microtrichiae evenly scattered on remigium; 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, T1 with long brown setae laterally, T2 in proximal third with few brown setae laterally, remaining tergites with short yellow and brown setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe dorsally and ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, divided distally into 2 short lobes; dorsal aedeagal sheath short; lateral apodeme simple.