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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia moyoensis Oldroyd, 1970
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face yellow pruinose, facial gibbosity distinct, mystax white, sometimes yellow, many macrosetae; ocellar tubercle yellow pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, yellow setae dorsally and white setae laterally
Antennae: scape brown, setae white; pedicel brown, white setae ventrally and black setae dorsally; postpedicel in proximal half light brown, distal half brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: black; scutum bluish-black, predominantly apruinose, margins yellow pruinose, many yellow setae scattered on apruinose surface directing medially, yellow setae on pruinose part, macrosetae: white, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, yellow
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora yellow proximally, brown distad, metathoracic femora yellow proximally, inner side brown medially, clubbed, club with white setae, especially developed ventrally; tibiae brown, yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; empodium distinct, very short
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae; pterostigma indistinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres brown
Abdomen: black; tergites yellow pruinose anteriorly, posterior margin brown pruinose, T1 with white setae, T2 with few white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short yellowish setae, sternites grey pruinose, S2 in proximal 3/4 apruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus distally only slightly pointed, lobe ventrally; hypandrium ventral margin straight; dorsal aedeagal sheath laterally flattened, tip hook-shaped; lateral apodeme bifurcated.