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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia abbreviata Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, 6 macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown-black, setae white; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, brown setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, short, as short as scape and pedicel combined, white pruinose proximally and ventrally; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: brown to black; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly black, antero-laterally brown, predominantly silver pruinose, median stripe, not reaching posterior margin, and 2 lateral spots, not reaching anterior and posterior margins, apruinose, white setae on margins; macrosetae: black, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellum silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, brown
Legs: brown; femora brown, setae white, metathoracic femora slightly clubbed; tibiae brown; tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium long, longer than half of length of claws
Wings: hyaline, very few microtrichiae in distal half; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres brown
Abdomen: brown; tergites brown pruinose, T1 with long white setae laterally, T2 in proximal third with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short white and yellow setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus blunt, rounded distally, narrow ventral lobe proximally; hypandrium ventral margin straight; gonostyli long; dorsal aedeagal sheath tubular, medium length; lateral apodeme simple.