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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia artaphernes (Speiser, 1910)
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face yellow pruinose, often long yellow setae originating at antennal base directing ventrally, facial gibbosity distinct; mystax yellow, many macrosetae, nearly as long as proboscis; ocellar tubercle apruinose; occiput silver pruinose, setae yellow
Antennae: scape brown, setae yellow; pedicel light brown, white pruinose, setae yellow and brown; postpedicel light brown proximally, brown distad, white pruinose posteriorly; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: black; scutum predominantly black, antero-laterally orange; margins silver or yellow pruinose, yellow setae scattered on surface, setae always directing to the centre; scutellum white pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, yellow
Legs: orange to brown; femora light brown, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, brown medially, orange distally, clubbed, club densely covered with short, erect yellow setae; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae light brown, yellow stripe anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae orange proximally, brown distad, yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; empodium distinct, very short
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae, brown coloured; pterostigma indistinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: brown to dark brown; tergites orange on anterior and posterior margins, grey pruinose, setae yellow, T1 with long yellow setae, T2 in proximal 2/3 with yellow setae laterally
Male terminalia: surstylus bent inwards distally; hypandrium with membranous area ventrally; dorsal aedeagal sheath long, lateral apodeme bifurcated.