Mixogaster

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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
Synonyms
  • Myxogaster Kertész, 1910
  • MyxogasterShiraki, 1930

Mixogaster is a genus of hoverflies native to North America and South America, [1] with 21 known species. [2] 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] Larvae are found in ant nests.

Species

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. 1879. New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3. ISSN   1175-5334. S2CID   4889764 . Retrieved 2009-09-11.
  2. ↑ Reemer, Menno; Ståhls, Gunilla (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". ZooKeys (288): 1–213. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.288.4095 . PMC   3690914 . PMID   23798897.
  3. ↑ Walker, F. (1849). List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 485–687.
  4. ↑ Kahl, P.H.I. (1897). "New species of the syrphid genera Mixogaster Macq. and Ceria Fabr., with notes". The Kansas University Quarterly. 6: 137–146.
  5. ↑ Curran, Charles Howard (1925). "Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae north of Mexico". The Kansas University Science Bulletin. 15: 7–216.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hull, Frank M. (1954). "The Genus Mixogaster Macquart" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (1652).
  7. ↑ Macquart, Pierre-Justin-Marie (1842). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxieme.--2e partie. Paris: Roret. pp. 5–140. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  8. ↑ Skevington, Jeffrey (2019). "New Syrphidae (Diptera) of North-eastern North America". Biodiversity Data Journal. 7: e36673. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e36673 . PMC   6736894 . PMID   31543695.
  9. 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.
  10. ↑ Shannon, R.C (1925). "Some American Syrphidae (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 27: 107–112.
  11. ↑ Hull, Frank M. (1941). "Some New Species of Syrphidae". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 36: 166.
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