Paramixogaster
# Paramixogaster

Paramixogaster is a genus of hoverflies, with 25 known species. Paramixogaster has an appendix on vein R4+5 that is absent in Mixogaster.

## Biology

Larvae are found in ant nests.

## Distribution

They are native to parts of Asia and Australia.

## Species

* P. acantholepidis (Speiser, 1913)
* P. aphritinus (Thomson, 1869)
* P. brunetti Reemer, 2013 (new name for Mixogaster vespiformis Brunetti, 1913)
* P. contractus (Brunetti, 1923)
* P. conveniens (Brunetti, 1923)
* P. crematogastri (Speiser, 1913)
* P. daveyi (Knab & Malloch, 1912)
* P. decipiens (Meijere, 1917)
* P. elisabethae (Keiser, 1971)
* P. fujianensis Cheng, 2012
* P. gayi (Paramonov, 1957)
* P. icariiformis Pendlebury, 1927
* P. illucens (Bezzi, 1915)
* P. indicus (Doleschall, 1857)
* P. luxor (Curran, 1931)
* P. odyneroides (Meijere, 1908)
* P. omeanus (Paramonov, 1957)
* P. petiolata (Hull, 1944)
* P. piptotus Reemer, 2013
* P. praetermissus (Ferguson, 1926)
* P. sacki Reemer, 2013 (new name for Myxogaster variegata Sack, 1922)
* P. variegatus (Walker, 1852)
* P. vespiformis (Meijere, 1908)
* P. wegneri Keiser, 1964
* P. yunnanensis Cheng, 2012
