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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia acuminata Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: Dark brown; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many stiff macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi dark brown, white setae; ocellar tubercle black, silver pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, white setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, white setae ventrally and brown setae dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel light brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: Black; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum generally black, sometimes orange on anterior margin, brown pruinose, margins silver pruinose, 2 narrow median longitudinal stripes, not reaching posterior margin, and 2 lateral stripes, not reaching anterior and posterior margins, apruinose, yellow setae on margins; macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 black supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, white
Legs: yellow to brown; femora yellow proximally, brown distally, white setae, metathoracic femora clubbed, club with short white setae; tibiae yellow proximally, brown distad, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, but microtrichiae evenly scattered on remigium; pterostigma distinct, light brown; discal cell terminating in 3 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: Black; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T1 with long brown setae laterally, T2 in proximal third with few brown setae laterally, remaining tergites with short yellow and brown setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe dorsally and ventrally of similar size; hypandrium bent upwards, pointed at apex; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, lateral processes of dorsal aedeagal sheath short, extending gonopore; lateral apodeme simple.