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Genus of flies

Paramixogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Microdontinae
Genus: Paramixogaster
Brunetti, 1923
Type species
Mixogaster vespiformis
Brunetti, 1923
Synonyms
  • Paramixogasteroides Shiraki, 1930
  • Tanaopicera Hull, 1945

Paramixogaster is a genus of hoverflies, with fewer than 30 known species. Paramixogaster has an appendix on vein R4+5 that is absent in Mixogaster.

Biology

Larvae are found in ant nests, or otherwise in association with ants.

Distribution

They are native to parts of Asia and Australia.

Species

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Reemer M, Sankararaman H (2024) Revision of the Oriental species of the hoverfly genus Paramixogaster Brunetti, 1923 (Diptera, Syrphidae, Microdontinae). ZooKeys 1208: 1-48. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1208.122829
Taxon identifiers
Paramixogaster
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