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Genus Mixogaster

Mixogaster breviventris Mixogaster breviventris Mixogaster breviventris small red-orange fly with black wings and yellow halteres - Mixogaster I think Mixogaster sp. - Mixogaster I think Mixogaster sp. - Mixogaster Unknown Fly - Mixogaster Mixogaster sp. - Mixogaster fattigi
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Aschiza")
Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)
Subfamily Microdontinae
Genus Mixogaster
Explanation of Names
Mixogaster Macquart 1842
Numbers
4 spp. (incl. one undescribed) in our area, 21 described & several undescribed total(1)
Range
New World, mainly neotropical(1)
Works Cited
1.Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)
Reemer M., Ståhls G. 2013. ZooKeys 288: 1–213.
Contributed by Ray Fisher on 28 February, 2013 - 9:16am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 April, 2013 - 1:19pm

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