Euscelidia capensis Dikow, 2003
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.
The species is distinguished from congeners by the many erect setae scattered on the scutum and the densely arranged microtrichiae on the wings. This species is part of the brunnea species-group.
Type locality: South Africa, Western Cape, Witzenberg Valley (33°20'S 019°30'E).
Afrotropical Region: South Africa.
See this map for an up-to-date distribution map based on specimen records from numerous museum collections.