Key to Argogorytes species of the Indian subcontinent

1. Head, mesosoma and metasoma metallic blue; scutellum in middle with narrow, transverse, raised smooth area..................................................................................... A. caerulescens (Turner, 1914)

- Head, mesosoma and metasoma black with yellow or creamy white maculations; scutellum in middle without narrow, transverse, raised smooth area............................................................................... 2

2. Metanotum black (Fig. 5); basal four metasomal terga black with a pair of small creamy white spot on Gt 1 subapically, and a pair of very narrow elongated creamy white band on Gt 2 subapically (Fig. 10); wings clear hyaline except stigma....................................................................... A. pulawskii Girish Kumar & Dubey sp. nov.

- Metanotum with yellow band (Fig. 17); basal four metasomal terga black with subapical yellow bands (Fig. 20); wings brownish hyaline except stigma.................................................... A. tonkinensis (Yasumatsu, 1943)