Species of the genus Aragara Walker (Diptera: Chloropidae: Chloropinae: Mindini) from China with key to species of the world Author Liu, Xiaoyan Author Yang, Ding text Zootaxa 2014 3895 1 127 136 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3895.1.8 9ecab41e-add9-4d16-bc6b-8b9ebe53d4ac 1175-5326 229489 95F48FFC-8A9F-4C29-9FF7-8916C2891E51 Key to species of Aragara from the world 1. Body slender, elongated; frontal triangle smooth without median groove.......................................... 2 - Body stout; frontal triangle smooth with median groove....................................................... 3 2. Antenna entirely yellow; proboscis yellow; cercus without serrate margin....................... A. flavaristata sp. nov. - Antennal pedicel yellowish brown, first flagellomere yellow except for brownish distal portion and margins; proboscis brown; cercus with serrate margin............................................................ A. mizoramensis Cherian 3. Arista with short pubescence.............................................................................4 - Arista naked.......................................................................................... 6 4. Abdomen entirely black................................................................. A. femorata Cherian - Abdomen black except for yellow tergites 1+2, tergite 2 with small black lateral spot................................ 5 5. Halter creamy white on knob, yellow on stem; abdominal tergites 3–5 black............................ A. minor Ismay - Halter pale yellow on knob, brown on stem; abdominal tergite 3 yellow, laterally brown, basal 1/3 of tergite 4 yellow with 2 oblate brown spots, tergite 5 brown..................................................... A. menglaensis sp. nov. 6. Abdomen entirely black................................................................................ 7 -. Abdomen black except for yellow tergites 1+2, tergite 2 with small black lateral spot................................ 8 7. Thoracic pleuron glossy black with a wedge-shaped grey microtomentose stripe running from postpronotum to wing base; hal- ter pale yellow......................................................................... .. A. imitator Becker - Thoracic pleuron cinereous; halter white..................................................... A. crassipes Walker 8. Antenna entirely black; mid and hind legs in male entirely and in some females partly yellow......... A. trilineata Cherian - Antenna black except for yellow basoventral portion of first flagellomere; mid and hind legs black except for yellow tarsi and brown mid tarsomeres 4-5 and hind tarsomere 5............................... A. sinensis (Yang & Yang) comb. nov.