Euscelidia adusta Dikow, 2003
Head: dark brown; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, 7 to 8 macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown, setae white; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white and brown
Antennae: scape brown, brown setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose proximally and ventrally; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: brown; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly pruinose, holotype with 2 narrow longitudinal stripes, reaching anterior margin, apruinose, only right hand side with large antero-lateral apruinose spot, paratype without apruinose stripes and with 2 apruinose spots posterior to transverse suture; macrosetae: brown, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, white
Legs: yellow to brown; femora light brown, except for proximal and distal tip, which is pale yellow, metathoracic femora slightly clubbed; tibiae light brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere on prothoracic and mesothoracic leg yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, all tarsomere brown on metathoracic leg, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, veins brown; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: brown; tergites grey pruinose, T2 with apruinose spot anteriorly, T1 with long white setae laterally, T2 in proximal half with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short white and yellow setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe dorsally and ventrally, dorsal lobe large; hypandrium ventral margin straight, dorsal aedeagal sheath tubular, medium length; lateral apodeme simple.
The species is distinguished from congeners by the overall brown coloration, the light brown pruinose scutum, and the few microtrichiae on the wings.
Type locality: Cameroun, Johann-Albrechtshöhe (04°39'N 009°25'E).
Afrotropical Region: Cameroun, Uganda.
See this map for an up-to-date distribution map based on specimen records from numerous museum collections.