Paramixogaster Explained
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.
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
Notes and References
- 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 . Zootaxa . 1879 . 21–48 . Magnolia Press . New Zealand . 10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3 . 1175-5334 . PDF Adobe Acrobat . 2009-09-11 .
- 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
