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5. Neomochtherus mundus

Face, frons, vertex and and the posterior surface of head covered in dense yellow dust; head’s bristles and hair completely white; palpus black with short white hairs and bristles; antennae black with short black and white hairs and bristles on it’s basal segments..
Mesonotum in dense light grey dust, short white and black hair; median brown stripe ends at the posterior suture of mesonotum; mesonotum bristles yellow-whitish with some black bristles; scutellum in dense grey dust, with pair of yellow-whitish bristles at the hind margin.
Legs yellow, with white hair and bristles; leg 1 and 2 femur from the anterior side with wide black band; leg 3 femur posteriorly with thin yellow band; tibia yellow, apically black; tarsus brown-blackish; claws black, with red-yellowish base.
Wings transparent; medial transverse vein located behind the middle of the discoid cell.
Abdomen in light grey dust, white hairs and bristles; 1-st sternite with longs white hairs.
Hypopygium yellow-reddish or red-brownish, with white hairs; both halves of the epandrium in the middle with wide triangular lamellar outgrowth, ventrally elongated at the top in a narrow short process; basal segment of gonopods long and narrow, curved; hypandrium with a wide and deep cut at the rear margin.
Ovipositor black; its length equals the length of the two preceding segments of the abdomen combined.
Body length – 14-20 mm.
Distribution: Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, Asia Middle, Greece, north China