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
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