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Aragara Walker 1860

Description

Genus Aragara Walker, 1860 (= Ochtherisoma Becker, 1911)

The genus is restricted to the Oriental Region. The genus with type species A. crassipes Walker was described from Sri Lanka (Walker, 1860), then Becker (1911) described A. imitator (Becker) from Java and this species was recorded from Burma and Philippines (Sabrosky, 1977).

Cherian (1985) described 3 species in India, and Ismay (1990) described A. minor Ismay from Malaysia.

Notes

Published as part of Nartshuk, E. P., 2013, Grassflies of the subfamily Chloropinae (Diptera: Chloropidae) from Vietnam and Thailand, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 534-544 in Zootaxa 3702 (6) on page 535, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3702.6.2, http://zenodo.org/record/221995

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Chloropidae
Genus
Aragara
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Aragara Walker, 1860 sec. Nartshuk, 2013

References

  • Walker, A. R. (1860) Catalogue of the Dipterous insects collected at Makessar in Celebes. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology, 4, 9 - 154. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1860. tb 00090 a. x
  • Becker, T. (1911) Chloropidae. Eine monographische Studie. III. Teil. Die indo-australische Region. Annales historiconaturales musei nationalis hungarici, 9, 35 - 170. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 57903
  • Sabrosky, C. W. (1977) Family Chloropidae, In: Delfinado, M. & Hardy, E. D. (Eds.), A catalog of Diptera of the Oriental Region. 3. University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu, pp. 277 - 319.
  • Cherian, P. H. (1985) The genus Aragara from India (Diptera, Chloropidae). Oriental Insects, 18 (1984), 87 - 94. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1984.10432198
  • Ismay, J. W. (1990) A new Aragara Walker (Diptera, Chloropidae) from Malaysia. Entomologist's monthly Magazine, 126, N 1516 - 1519, 217 - 221.