Aragara menglaensis Liu & Yang, 2014, sp. nov.

Aragara menglaensis sp. nov. Figs 2, 12– 15 Diagnosis. Frontal triangle smooth with a longitudinal groove along each lateral margin and broad median groove. Antenna yellow except for blackish brown pedicel, dorsal 1 / 2 of first flagellomere yellowish brown; arista with short pubescence. Legs black except for yellow knees and tarsi with fore tarsomeres 2-5, mid and hind tarsomeres 4-5 black. Description. Male. Body length 3.7 mm, wing length 2.5 mm. Head black with grey microtomentum, 0.8 x as long as high, 1.2 x as wide as thorax; face somewhat concave in lateral view, facial carina distinct; frons brown except for anterior 1 / 4 yellow, as long as wide, projecting only slightly in front of eye; gena narrow, yellow except for black ventral margin; parafacial linear. Frontal triangle black with yellow apex, smooth, shiny, reaching anterior margin of frons, with slightly pointed apex, with a longitudinal groove along each lateral margin and broad median groove; ocellar tubercle brown. Cephalic setae and setulae black; oc and poc hair-like, oc as long as poc; vte developed, vti hair-like, 0.75 x as long as vte. Antenna yellow with thick greyish microtomentum except for blackish brown pedicel, dorsal 1 / 2 of first flagellomere yellowish brown; first flagellomere as long as wide; arista brown except basal 1 / 2 yellow, with short brown pubescence. Proboscis brown to yellow with yellow setulae; palpus yellow with yellow setulae. Thorax black with microtomentum, evenly covered with short setulae. Scutum with granulated microsculpture, 1.1 x as long as wide. Thoracic pleuron shiny brown without microtomentum except for black anteroventral portion of anepisternum, ventral 2 / 3 of katepisternum, anteroventral margin of anepimeron and ventral 1 / 2 of katepimeron. Scutellum yellowish brown, 0.7 x as long as wide; ap sc developed, slightly shorter than scutellum. Setae and setulae on thorax black except for yellow a npl; npl 1 + 2, a npl hair-like, p npl developed, a npl as long as p npl; a pa developed and p pa hair-like, p pa 0.6 x as long as a pa; 1 dc hair-like, 1.75 x as long as a pa. Legs black except for brown hind coxa and trochanter; all knees and tarsi yellow with fore tarsomeres 2-5, mid and hind tarsomeres 4- 5 black. Fore coxa very long, 0.8 x as long as its femur; fore femur thickened, maximum width 1 / 4 its length, with two rows of stout spines arranged on sides of ventral surface, spines of outer row slightly longer, spines arranged on distal 3 / 5 of fore femur; fore tibia 0.85 x as long as fore femur and distinctly curved. Setulae on legs yellow except for distal portions with some brown setulae. Wing 2.8 x as long as wide, hyaline; veins brown. Relative lengths of 2 nd: 3 rd: 4 th costal sections = 3.3: 2: 1; cross-veins r-m and m-m not approximated, r-m at basal 0.57 of discal cell. Halter pale yellow on knob, brown on stem. Abdomen shiny brown except for pale yellow tergites 1 + 2, tergite 2 with small black lateral spot; tergite 3 yellow, laterally brown; basal 1 / 3 of tergite 4 yellow with 2 oblate brown spots; venter yellow. Setulae on abdomen brown. Male genitalia (Figs. 12–15): Epandrium short tubular, brown with long brown setulae and 2 band-like sclerites along posterodorsal notch; surstylus basally broad with spinous processes, attached to epandrium anteroventrally. Cercus small, triangular in ventral view with some short setulae. Gonites arranged in a row; postgonite long with some sensory setulae, distally broad and slightly incurved; pregonite short, 0.7 x as long as postgonite, basally broad, distally narrowed; basiphallus longer than wide, cylindrical; distiphallus longer than basiphallus, reaching dorsal margin of hypandrium, largely membranous; phallapodeme long, extended near base of basiphallus, with basal stalk broad in lateral view. Hypandrium broad. Female. Unknown. Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂ (CAU), CHINA: Yunnan: Mengla, Yaoqu, 6. VIII. 2010, Coll. HuiYu. Distribution. China (Yunnan). Remarks. The new species is somewhat similar to A. femorata Cherian in having the body stout; frontal triangle smooth with a longitudinal groove along each lateral margin and broad median groove; all femora and tibiae black, the maximum width of fore femur 1 / 4 its length. It can be separated from the latter by the following features: antenna yellow except for blackish brown pedicel, dorsal 1 / 2 of first flagellomere yellowish brown; proboscis brown to yellow, palpus yellow; second sector of costa 1.65 x as long as third sector. In A. femorata, pedicel is brownish black and first flagellomere is yellowish to dark brown with dark tinge in distal 1 / 2; proboscis is dark brown, palpus is brown; second sector of costa is 1.3 x as long as third sector (Cherian 1984). Etymology. The species is named after the type locality Mengla.Published as part of Liu, Xiaoyan & Yang, Ding, 2014, Species of the genus Aragara Walker (Diptera: Chloropidae: Chloropinae: Mindini) from China with key to species of the world, pp. 127-136 in Zootaxa 3895 (1) on pages 131-132, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3895.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/22948