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Paramixogaster

Genus of flies

Genus of flies

  • 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

  1. 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.
  2. (25 July 2024). "Revision of the Oriental species of the hoverfly genus ''Paramixogaster'' Brunetti, 1923 (Diptera, Syrphidae, Microdontinae)". [[ZooKeys]].
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