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| Paramixogaster | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Microdontinae |
| Genus: | Paramixogaster Brunetti, 1923 |
| Type species | |
| Mixogaster vespiformis Brunetti, 1923 | |
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Paramixogaster is a genus of hoverflies, with fewer than 30 known species.[1][2] Paramixogaster has an appendix on vein R4+5 that is absent in Mixogaster.[1]
Biology
[edit]Larvae are found in ant nests, or otherwise in association with ants.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Species
[edit]- P. acantholepidis (Speiser, 1913)
- P. aphritina (Thomson, 1869)
- P. brunetti Reemer, 2013 (new name for Mixogaster vespiformis Brunetti, 1913)
- P. contracta (Brunetti, 1923)
- P. conveniens (Brunetti, 1923)
- P. crematogastri (Speiser, 1913)
- P. daveyi (Knab & Malloch, 1912)
- P. elisabethae (Keiser, 1971)
- P. fujianensis Cheng, 2012
- P. gayi (Paramonov, 1957)
- P. halmaherensis Reemer, 2024
- P. icariiformis Pendlebury, 1927
- P. illucens (Bezzi, 1915)
- P. indica (Doleschall, 1857)
- P. jubata Reemer, 2024
- P. kodaiana Sankararaman & Reemer, 2024
- P. luxor (Curran, 1931)
- P. odyneroides (Meijere, 1908)
- P. omeana (Paramonov, 1957)
- P. petiolata (Hull, 1944)
- P. piptota Reemer, 2013
- P. praetermissa (Ferguson, 1926)
- P. sacki Reemer, 2013 (new name for Myxogaster variegata Sack, 1922)
- P. sulawesiana Reemer, 2024
- P. variegata (Walker, 1852)
- P. vespiformis (Meijere, 1908)
- P. yunnanensis Cheng, 2012
References
[edit]- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 3 Reemer, Menno; Sankararaman, Hariharakrishnan (25 July 2024). "Revision of the Oriental species of the hoverfly genus Paramixogaster Brunetti, 1923 (Diptera, Syrphidae, Microdontinae)". ZooKeys. 1208: 1–48. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1208.122829. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 11294753.