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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia nitida (Wiedemann, 1828)
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
Media
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity distinct, mystax white, few macrosetae; ocellar tubercle grey pruinose dorsally; occiput grey pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape light brown, setae brown; pedicel light brown, setae brown; postpedicel light brown, white pruinose dorsally in proximal half of length; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: black; scutum grey pruinose, 2 narrow median stripes, not reaching posterior margin, and 2 lateral stripes, not reaching anterior and posterior margins, apruinose; scutellum grey pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellum very short, white
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora yellow, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, clubbed, club brown; tibiae light brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae brown in distal half; empodium about a quarter of length of claws
Wings: hyaline, very few microtrichiae on remigium; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 3 veins; halteres yellow
Abdomen: black; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T2 in proximal half with apruinose spot, T1 with white setae, T2 with few white setae laterally, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally; lobe ventrally; hypandrium ventral margin straight, distally with 2 pointed lobes; dorsal aedeagal sheath tubular; lateral apodeme bifurcated.