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Mixogaster

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Syrphidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Diptera

Subfamily
  
Microdontinae

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Mixogaster is a genus of hoverflies native to North America and South America, 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. The larvae feed as scavengers in the nests of ants.

Species

  • Mixogaster conopsoides Macquart, 1842
  • Mixogaster delongi Johnston, 1924
  • Mixogaster flukei Hull, 1954
  • Mixogaster imitator Thompson, 2004
  • Mixogaster polistes Hull, 1954
  • Mixogaster sartocryptus Hull, 1954

    • References

    Mixogaster Wikipedia
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