Paramixogaster
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| Genus: | Paramixogaster Brunetti, 1923
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| Mixogaster vespiformis Brunetti, 1923
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Paramixogaster is a genus of hoverflies, with 25 known species.[1] Paramixogaster has an appendix on vein R4+5 that is absent in Mixogaster.[2]
Biology[edit]
Larvae are found in ant nests.
Distribution[edit]
They are native to parts of Asia and Australia.[2]
Species[edit]
- P. acantholepidis (Speiser, 1913)
- P. aphritinus (Thomson, 1869)
- P. brunetti Reemer, 2013[1] (new name for Mixogaster vespiformis Brunetti, 1913)
- P. contractus (Brunetti, 1923)
- P. conveniens (Brunetti, 1923)
- P. crematogastri (Speiser, 1913)
- P. daveyi (Knab & Malloch, 1912)
- P. decipiens (Meijere, 1917)
- P. elisabethae (Keiser, 1971)
- P. fujianensis Cheng, 2012
- P. gayi (Paramonov, 1957)
- P. icariiformis Pendlebury, 1927
- P. illucens (Bezzi, 1915)
- P. indicus (Doleschall, 1857)
- P. luxor (Curran, 1931)
- P. odyneroides (Meijere, 1908)
- P. omeanus (Paramonov, 1957)
- P. petiolata (Hull, 1944)
- P. piptotus Reemer, 2013[1]
- P. praetermissus (Ferguson, 1926)
- P. sacki Reemer, 2013[1] (new name for Myxogaster variegata Sack, 1922)
- P. variegatus (Walker, 1852)
- P. vespiformis (Meijere, 1908)
- P. wegneri Keiser, 1964
- P. yunnanensis Cheng, 2012
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Reemer, Menno; Ståhls, Gunilla (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". ZooKeys (288): 1–213. doi:10.3897/zookeys.288.4095. PMC 3690914. PMID 23798897.
- ^ a b Cheng, Xin-Yue; Thompson, F. Christian (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Zootaxa. 1879. New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2009-09-11.