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<taxonomicName LSID="http://species-id.net/wiki/Paramixogaster" authority="Brunetti" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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Brunetti
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Figs 269-284
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<paragraph pageId="52" pageNumber="53">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paramixogaster</taxonomicName>
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Brunetti, 1923: 319. Type species:
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster vespiformis" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vespiformis">Paramixogaster vespiformis</taxonomicName>
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Brunetti, 1923: 320, by original designation.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="52" pageNumber="53">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogasteroides" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogasteroides" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paramixogasteroides</taxonomicName>
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Shiraki, 1930: 8. Type species:
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Myxogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Myxogaster variegata" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variegata">Myxogaster variegata</taxonomicName>
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Sack, 1922: 16, by original designation.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="52" pageNumber="53">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Tanaopicera" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tanaopicera" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Tanaopicera</taxonomicName>
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Hul, 1945: 76. Type species:
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Ceratophya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ceratophya variegatus" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variegatus">Ceratophya variegatus</taxonomicName>
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Walker, 1852: 220, by original designation.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="52" pageNumber="53" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Description.</paragraph>
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Body length: 5-13 mm. Slender flies with constricted abdomen and long antennae, usually with black and yellow colour pattern, wasp mimics. Head wider than thorax. Face convex in profile; narrower than to wider than an eye. Lateral oral margins not produced. Vertex flat to strongly swollen. Occiput ventrally narrow, dorsally widened. Antennal fossa about as wide as high. Eye bare. Eye margins in male parallel, not converging at level of frons. Antenna longer than distance between antennal fossa and anterior oral margin. Basoflagellomere usually much longer than scape, except shorter in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster illucens" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="illucens">Paramixogaster illucens</taxonomicName>
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(Bezzi) and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster luxor" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="luxor">Paramixogaster luxor</taxonomicName>
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Curran (see Discussion); bare. Postpronotum bare. Mesoscutum with transverse suture usually incomplete, except complete in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster contractus" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="contractus">Paramixogaster contractus</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster conveniens" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="conveniens">Paramixogaster conveniens</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster omeanus" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="omeanus">Paramixogaster omeanus</taxonomicName>
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(see Discussion). Scutellum semicircular; without or with small calcars. Anepisternum convex or sulcate; entirely pilose or partly bare on ventral half. Anepimeron entirely pilose. Katepimeron convex; bare. Wing: vein R4+5 with or without posterior appendix; vein M1 perpendicular to vein R4+5 and vein M; postero-apical corner of cell r4+5 rectangular to somewhat acute, with small appendix; crossvein r-m located within basal 1/4 of cell dm. Abdomen elongate, at least 3 times as long as wide; constricted, with narrowest point at tergite 2 and widest point at tergite 3 or 4. Tergites 3 and 4 fused. Male genitalia: phallus furcate, with furcation point in distal 1/3; epandrium without ventrolateral ridge; surstylus weakly furcate, only in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster luxor" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="luxor">Paramixogaster luxor</taxonomicName>
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consisting of three distinct branches.
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<subSubSection pageId="52" pageNumber="53" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Postpronotum bare. Basoflagellomere at least three times as long as wide. Posterio-apical corner of wing cell r4+5 rectangular or somewhat acute. Abdomen usually constricted (i.e. with narrowest point at tergite 2 and widest point at tergite 3 or 4); if not, then the following three characters apply: 1) basoflagellomere 2-4 times as long as scape, 2) tergite 2 less than half as long as tergites 3 and 4 together, 3) face smooth medially (without vitta of transversely wrinkled texture).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="53" lastPageNumber="54" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" type="discussion">
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<paragraph pageId="52" pageNumber="53">Discussion.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="53" lastPageNumber="54" pageId="52" pageNumber="53">
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<bibRefCitation author="Cheng, X-Y" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" pagination="21 - 48" title="A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China." volume="1879" year="2008">Cheng and Thompson (2008)</bibRefCitation>
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regarded
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Shiraki, 1930 and
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Hull, 1945 as subjective synonyms of
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. Examination of the type species of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Tanaopicera" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tanaopicera" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Tanaopicera</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Ceratophya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ceratophya variegata" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variegata">Ceratophya variegata</taxonomicName>
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Walker, 1852, confirmed this opinion with regard to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Tanaopicera" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tanaopicera" order="Diptera" pageId="52" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Tanaopicera</taxonomicName>
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. One of the characters
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<bibRefCitation author="Hull, FM" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club" pageId="84" pageNumber="85" pagination="71 - 78" title="Some undescribed syrphid flies." volume="23" year="1945">Hull (1945)</bibRefCitation>
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used to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Tanaopicera" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tanaopicera" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Tanaopicera</taxonomicName>
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was 'the high, greatly developed
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. However, the vertex in the holotype of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Ceratophya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ceratophya variegata" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variegata">Ceratophya variegata</taxonomicName>
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is neither high nor greatly developed. This species is very similar to other
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-species in all important characters. The type species of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogasteroides" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogasteroides" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paramixogasteroides</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Myxogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Myxogaster variegata" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variegata">Myxogaster variegata</taxonomicName>
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Sack, was not examined, but its description by
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<bibRefCitation pageId="53" pageNumber="54">Sack (1922)</bibRefCitation>
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is clear enough to include this taxon in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paramixogaster</taxonomicName>
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.
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<paragraph pageId="53" pageNumber="54">
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Morphological variation among the species presently included in
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is large. Although most species have a constricted abdomen in dorsal view, this is not the case in the African taxa
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster acantholepidis" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="acantholepidis">Paramixogaster acantholepidis</taxonomicName>
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(Speiser, 1913) and
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(Speiser, 1913), and the Australian species
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster praetermissus" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="praetermissus">Paramixogaster praetermissus</taxonomicName>
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(Ferguson, 1926). However, tergite 2 is dorsoventrally flattened in these species, so in lateral view their abdomen appears constricted. In all other important characters of external morphology and male genitalia these taxa belong in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paramixogaster</taxonomicName>
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, as corroborated by the results of the phylogenetic analysis based on morphology (
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Reemer and
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in press
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).
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster illucens" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="illucens">Paramixogaster illucens</taxonomicName>
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(Bezzi, 1915) and
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(Curran, 1931) are the only species included in this genus in which the basoflagellomere is shorter than the scape. In
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster luxor" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="luxor">Paramixogaster luxor</taxonomicName>
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, the shape of the surstylus also differs from the other species, as it consists of three separate branches (Fig. 282). Nevertheless, both species are included in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paramixogaster</taxonomicName>
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because agree with the diagnosis.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="53" pageNumber="54">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster contractus" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="contractus">Paramixogaster contractus</taxonomicName>
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(Brunetti, 1923),
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster conveniens" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="conveniens">Paramixogaster conveniens</taxonomicName>
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(Brunetti, 1923) and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster omeanus" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="omeanus">Paramixogaster omeanus</taxonomicName>
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(Paramonov, 1957) are aberrant from all other known species of
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in their complete transverse suture. This character is also found in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Indascia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Indascia" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Indascia</taxonomicName>
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, which includes species which look superficially similar to these
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-species. However, these species are here assigned to
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, based on the phylogenetic analysis of their morphology (
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Reemer and
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in press
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). In addition, they possess a diagnostic character for
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: the bare postpronotum. The first two species,
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and
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, differ from all other studied species of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Microdontinae">Microdontinae</taxonomicName>
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in the presence of pile on the metaepisternum. It will be interesting to re-evaluate their taxonomic affinities when additional material becomes available. At present, the species are only known from the holotypes, which both are females, so no characters of male genitalia or DNA could be analyzed.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="53" pageNumber="54">
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As a consequence of transferring some species from other genera to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paramixogaster</taxonomicName>
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, replacement names had to be chosen for two species. Examination of the type of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Microdon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Microdon vespiformis" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vespiformis">Microdon vespiformis</taxonomicName>
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de Meijere, 1908 made clear that this is a species of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paramixogaster</taxonomicName>
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. As
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Mixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mixogaster vespiformis" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vespiformis">Mixogaster vespiformis</taxonomicName>
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Brunetti, 1913 was later designated as the type species of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paramixogaster</taxonomicName>
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, these two names are now secondary homonyms. For the junior name, vespiformis Brunetti, the nomen novum
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster brunettii" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brunettii">Paramixogaster brunettii</taxonomicName>
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is proposed here. The other new name introduced here is
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogaster sacki" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sacki">Paramixogaster sacki</taxonomicName>
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for
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Paramixogasteroides" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paramixogasteroides variegata" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variegata">Paramixogasteroides variegata</taxonomicName>
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Sack, 1922, which is a junior secondary homonym of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Ceratophya" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ceratophya variegata" order="Diptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variegata">Ceratophya variegata</taxonomicName>
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Walker, 1852.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="53" pageNumber="54" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="53" pageNumber="54">Diversity and distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="53" pageNumber="54">Described species: 26. Afrotropical (5 species), Oriental (12) and Australian region (9). Several additional species, from all three regions, await description.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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