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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia cacula Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face yellow pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax yellow, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brownish-black, setae white; ocellar tubercle yellow pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae yellow, white setae ventrally
Antennae: scape dark brown, yellow setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel dark brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose proximally and ventrally; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg large, yellow pruinose; scutum apruinose, margins yellow pruinose, yellow setae on margins, few short dorso-central setae may be present, macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 black supra-alar seta; scutellum white pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, yellow
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic femora light brown, mesothoracic femora light brown, brown dorsally, metathoracic femora yellow proximally, remaining part light brown to brown dorsally, light brown ventrally, slightly clubbed, short white setae on club; prothoracic tibiae light brown, yellow stripe anteriorly, mesothoracic and metathoracic tibiae brown, yellow stripe not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow proximally, brown distad, black setae; empodium about a third of length of claws
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae; pterostigma indistinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres orange
Abdomen: black; tergites grey pruinose, distal tergites more extensively brown pruinose, T1 with long yellow setae, T2 in proximal 2/3 with yellow setae laterally, remaining tergites with short white and yellow setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium ventral margin straight; dorsal aedeagal sheath tubular, terminating in a dorsad directed structure; lateral apodeme bifurcated.