Paramixogaster
Genus of flies
title: "Paramixogaster" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["hoverfly-genera", "diptera-of-australasia", "diptera-of-asia", "microdontinae", "taxa-named-by-enrico-adelelmo-brunetti"] description: "Genus of flies" topic_path: "general/hoverfly-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramixogaster" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Genus of flies ::
| image = Figs 269–277, ZooKeys-288-001-g036, Paramixogaster spp.jpg | taxon = Paramixogaster | authority = Brunetti, 1923 | type_species = Mixogaster vespiformis | type_species_authority = 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
- 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
References
- Cheng, Xin-Yue. (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China". Magnolia Press.
- (25 July 2024). "Revision of the Oriental species of the hoverfly genus ''Paramixogaster'' Brunetti, 1923 (Diptera, Syrphidae, Microdontinae)". [[ZooKeys]].
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