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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia capensis 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 brownish-black, ocellar tubercle apruinose; occiput silver pruinose, upper half only slightly silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, brown setae ventrally; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum bluish-black, yellow and brown pruinose, posterior margin silver pruinose, 2 narrow median stripes, originating at anterior margin, and 2 lateral spots, not reaching anterior and posterior margins, only slightly pruinose, long yellow and brown setae scattered on surface; macrosetae: black, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, brown
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora yellow, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, remaining part yellow, clubbed, club with brown stripe laterally, setae white; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae yellow, pale yellow stripe anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere in proximal half pale yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, black setae; empodium minute
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; tergites brown pruinose, grey pruinose laterally, T1 with long brown setae laterally, white and brown setae on remaining T, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, divided into 2 lobes; dorsal aedeagal sheath open, extending gonopore, lateral processes of dorsal aedeagal sheath short, pointed; lateral apodeme simple.