Paramixogaster fujianensis Cheng in Huang & Cheng, 2012

Reemer, Menno & Sankararaman, Hariharakrishnan, 2024, Revision of the Oriental species of the hoverfly genus Paramixogaster Brunetti, 1923 (Diptera, Syrphidae, Microdontinae), ZooKeys 1208, pp. 1-48 : 1-48

Paramixogaster fujianensis Cheng in Huang & Cheng, 2012

Paramixogaster fujianensis Cheng in Huang & Cheng, 2012: 695. Holotype ♂: China, Yunnan ( CASB, but see notes) [not examined]; Reemer and Ståhls 2013 a: 145.

Diagnosis.

Only male known. Body length: male 12 mm. Among the species with lateral bulges on the frons (which may not be as clear in this species as in other ones), P. fujianensis is the only one in which tergite 2 is more than twice as long as wide ( Huang and Cheng 2012: fig. 415). The mesonotal transverse suture is incomplete. According to the English translation of the description, the postpedicel is 3 × as long as the scape ( Huang and Cheng 2012). Figures of habitus and head are provided by Huang and Cheng (2012). Note that these characters are based on the description only and could not be verified against any specimens.

Notes.

Unsuccessful attempts were made to locate the type specimen of Paramixogaster fujianensis by trying to contact the author and by enquiring at the CASB collection (Ke-Ke Huo pers. comm. 2023). The original description by Huang and Cheng (2012) is in Chinese, but the same work also provides an English translation, as well as figures of the head in frontal view and of the thorax and abdomen in dorsal view. This information makes clear that this species is distinct from all other known Oriental species of Paramixogaster , especially in the very elongate tergite 2.