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Paramixogaster
Sign in to saveParamixogaster is a genus of hoverflies, with fewer than 30 known species. Paramixogaster has an appendix on vein R4+5 that is absent in Mixogaster.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 52
- With media
- 45
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Collections
- EMEC, AM, QM, INHS, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Australia
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Biology
- Distribution
- Species
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paramixogaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.