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Mixogaster

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Mixogaster
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Microdontinae
Genus: Mixogaster
Macquart, 1842
Type species
Mixogaster conopsoides
Macquart, 1842
Synonyms
  • Myxogaster Kertész, 1910
  • Myxogaster Shiraki, 1930

Mixogaster is a genus of hoverflies native to North America and South America,[1] with 21 known species.[2] Mixogaster is distinct by lacking an appendix on vein R4+5, having a reduced and bare metasternum, an unarmed scutellum, and usually an appendix on vein M extending in cell R4+5.[1] Larvae are found in ant nests.

Species

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References

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  1. 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). Zootaxa. 1879. New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. S2CID 4889764. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
  2. 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.
  3. Walker, F. (1849). List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 485–687.
  4. Kahl, P.H.I. (1897). "New species of the syrphid genera Mixogaster Macq. and Ceria Fabr., with notes". The Kansas University Quarterly. 6: 137–146.
  5. Curran, Charles Howard (1925). "Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae north of Mexico". The Kansas University Science Bulletin. 15: 7–216.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hull, Frank M. (1954). "The Genus Mixogaster Macquart" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (1652).
  7. Macquart, Pierre-Justin-Marie (1842). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxieme.--2e partie. Paris: Roret. pp. 5–140. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  8. Skevington, Jeffrey (2019). "New Syrphidae (Diptera) of North-eastern North America". Biodiversity Data Journal. 7 e36673. doi:10.3897/BDJ.7.e36673. PMC 6736894. PMID 31543695.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Marinoni, Luciane; Thompson, F. Christian (2003). "Flower flies of southeastern Brazil (Diptera: Syrphidae) Part I. Introduction and new species". Studia dipterologica. 10 (2): 565–578. ISSN 0945-3954.
  10. Shannon, R.C (1925). "Some American Syrphidae (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 27: 107–112.
  11. Hull, Frank M. (1941). "Some New Species of Syrphidae". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 36: 166.