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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia bechuana Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
Media
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown, setae white; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, brown setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel light brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel light brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: orange-red to black; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum orange-red antero-laterally, predominantly silver pruinose, 1 antero-lateral circular apruinose spot, 2 lateral apruinose spots anterior and posterior to transverse suture, sometimes 2 narrow longitudinal median apruinose stripes not reaching posterior margin present; macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 black supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, brown
Legs: yellow to brown; femora light brown, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, clubbed, club with brown stripe laterally; tibiae light brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, few microtrichiae scattered on remigium, slightly brown stained, veins brown; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; brown pruinose medially, grey pruinose on anterior, lateral, and posterior margins, T1 with long brown setae laterally, T2 with few white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short yellow and brown setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, divided into 2 lobes; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, blunt; lateral apodeme simple.