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Head: black; face yellow pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi black, setae white; ocellar tubercle apruinose; occiput silver pruinose, many white and yellow setae
Antennae: scape dark brown, white setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown or orange, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum bluish-black, red spots antero-laterally, predominantly apruinose, margins silver pruinose, surface covered with long yellow setae, white setae on pruinose part; macrosetae: white, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, white
Legs: orange to dark brown; prothoracic femora orange, mesothoracic femora orange, antero-medially brown, metathoracic femora clubbed, pale yellow proximally, proximal half of club black, distal half orange, club with erect yellow setae; prothoracic tibiae light brown, pale yellow stripe anteriorly, mesothoracic tibiae brown, pale yellow stripe anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae orange to black, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere pale yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere black, setae black; empodium distinct, very short
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae, brown coloured; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: orange to black; tergites predominantly black, anterior and posterior margins orange, yellow pruinose, T1 with many long yellow setae, T2 in proximal half with long yellow setae laterally, remaining tergites with short yellow and brown setae, sternites yellow pruinose, setae yellow
Male terminalia: surstylus bent inwards distally; hypandrium enlarged proximally; dorsal aedeagal sheath long, lateral apodeme bifurcated.

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