title: Paramixogaster
text: # 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
  