Biology:Mixogaster

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Short description: Genus of flies

Mixogaster
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Mixogaster

Macquart, 1842
Type species
Mixogaster conopsoides
Macquart, 1842
Synonyms
  • Myxogaster Kertész, 1910
  • Myxogaster Shiraki, 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. 1.0 1.1 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". Zootaxa (New Zealand: Magnolia Press) 1879: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01879p048.pdf. 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. 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104353#page/202/mode/1up. 
  5. Curran, Charles Howard (1925). "Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae north of Mexico". The Kansas University Science Bulletin. 15: 7–216. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4391303#page/15/mode/1up. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Hull, Frank M. (1954). "The Genus Mixogaster Macquart". American Museum Novitates (1652). https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/2417//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N1652.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. 
  7. Macquart, Pierre-Justin-Marie (1842). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxieme.--2e partie. Paris: Roret. pp. 5–140. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54217#page/232/mode/1up. 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. PMID 31543695. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16137247#page/143/mode/1up. 
  11. Hull, Frank M. (1941). "Some New Species of Syrphidae". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 36: 166. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50573961#page/182/mode/1up. 

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