Euscelidia nenemusha (Speiser, 1910)
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, 11 macrosetae; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput yellow pruinose, few white setae
Antennae: scape light brown, setae light brown; pedicel and postpedicel yellow, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element light brown
Thorax: brown; scutum brown, apruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins yellow pruinose, 2 black spots laterally, few yellow setae on surface, macrosetae: black, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, yellow
Legs: yellow to light brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora brown anteriorly, yellow posteriorly, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, brown dorsally, yellow ventrally, slightly clubbed, white setae; tibiae light brown, yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; empodium about a quarter of length of claws
Wings: hyaline, some microtrichiae distally; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres yellow with brown knob
Abdomen: brown, tergites white pruinose, T1 with black setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: male specimens unknown.
The species is distinguished, together with castanea and schoutedeni, from congeners by the overall brown colour, the predominantly apruinose scutum, and the apruinose T8 in the females. This species is so far only known from females.
Type locality: Tanzania, Meru (03°13'S 036°44'E).
Afrotropical Region: Tanzania.
See this map for an up-to-date distribution map based on specimen records from numerous museum collections.