Mixogaster

Mixogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Microdontinae
Genus: Mixogaster
Macquart, 1842
Type species
Mixogaster conopsoides
Macquart, 1842

Mixogaster is a genus of hoverflies native to North America and South America,[1] with 19 known species. Mixogaster is distinct by lacking an appendix on vein R4+5, having a reduced and bare metasternum, an unarmed scutellum, and usually an appendix on vein M extending in cell R4+5.[1] The larvae feed as scavengers in the nests of ants.

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 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" (PDF). Zootaxa (New Zealand: Magnolia Press) 1879: 21–48. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Marinoni, Luciane; Thompson, F. Christian (2003). "Flower flies of southeastern Brazil (Diptera: Syrphidae) Part I. Introduction and new species". Studia dipterologica 10 (2): 565–578. ISSN 0945-3954.


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