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 <small>(Speiser, 1913)</small>
- P. aphritina <small>(Thomson, 1869)</small>
- P. brunetti <small>Reemer, 2013</small> (new name for Mixogaster vespiformis <small>Brunetti, 1913</small>)
- P. contracta <small>(Brunetti, 1923)</small>
- P. conveniens <small>(Brunetti, 1923)</small>
- P. crematogastri <small>(Speiser, 1913)</small>
- P. daveyi <small>(Knab & Malloch, 1912)</small>
- P. elisabethae <small>(Keiser, 1971)</small>
- P. fujianensis <small>Cheng, 2012</small>
- P. gayi <small>(Paramonov, 1957)</small>
- P. halmaherensis <small>Reemer, 2024</small>
- P. icariiformis <small>Pendlebury, 1927</small>
- P. illucens <small>(Bezzi, 1915)</small>
- P. indica <small>(Doleschall, 1857)</small>
- P. jubata <small>Reemer, 2024</small>
- P. kodaiana <small>Sankararaman & Reemer, 2024</small>
- P. luxor <small>(Curran, 1931)</small>
- P. odyneroides <small>(Meijere, 1908)</small>
- P. omeana <small>(Paramonov, 1957)</small>
- P. petiolata <small>(Hull, 1944)</small>
- P. piptota <small>Reemer, 2013</small>
- P. praetermissa <small>(Ferguson, 1926)</small>
- P. sacki <small>Reemer, 2013</small> (new name for Myxogaster variegata <small>Sack, 1922</small>)
- P. sulawesiana <small>Reemer, 2024</small>
- P. variegata <small>(Walker, 1852)</small>
- P. vespiformis <small>(Meijere, 1908)</small>
- P. yunnanensis <small>Cheng, 2012</small>
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