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Elassogaster
Genus of flies From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elassogaster is a genus of scavenger flies (Diptera) belonging to the family Platystomatidae. They are native to warm regions of Africa, Madagascar, Asia and Australia.
They have rounded heads with red eyes, a shiny green thorax and a dark stigma on the wing tips.[5] Adults frequent the vicinity of dung or carcasses, where they walk while constantly waving their wings. The larvae develop in dung.[5]
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Species
- E. aerea Hendel, 1914[6]
- E. anteapicalis Hendel, 1914[6]
- E. arcuata Hendel, 1914[6]
- E. brachialis (Rondani, 1873)[3]
- E. calida (Wiedemann, 1830)[7]
- E. didyma (Osten Sacken, 1881)[8]
- E. didymoides Hendel, 1914[6]
- E. flavipes (Schiner, 1868)[9]
- E. floresana Hennig, 1941
- E. hilgendorfi Enderlein, 1924[10]
- E. hyalipennis Malloch, 1931[11]
- E. immaculata (Macquart, 1843)[12]
- E. inflexus (Fabricius, 1805)[13]
- E. linearis (Walker, 1849)[14]
- E. metallica Bigot, 1860[1]
- E. nigripes Malloch, 1940[15]
- E. potens Frey, 1930[16]
- E. pulla Hendel, 1914[6]
- E. quadrimaculata Hendel, 1914[6]
- E. rutila (Hendel, 1914)[6]
- E. sangiensis Meijere, 1916[17]
- E. signatipes (Walker, 1860)[18]
- E. simplex Frey, 1930[16]
- E. sordida (Walker, 1861)[19]
- E. vanderwulpi Hendel, 1914[6]
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