''Elassogaster'' is a genus of scavenger flies (Diptera) belonging to the family

Platystomatidae The Platystomatidae (signal flies) are a distinctive family of flies (Diptera) in the superfamily Tephritoidea. Signal flies are worldwide in distribution, found in all the biogeographic realms, but predominate in the tropics. It is one of the ...

. They are native to warm regions of

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and

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. They have rounded heads with red eyes, a shiny green thorax and a dark stigma on the wing tips. Adults frequent the vicinity of dung or carcasses, where they walk while constantly waving their wings. The larvae develop in dung.

Species

*'' E. aerea'' Hendel, 1914 *'' E. anteapicalis'' Hendel, 1914 *'' E. arcuata'' Hendel, 1914 *'' E. brachialis'' ( Rondani, 1873) *'' E. calida'' ( Wiedemann, 1830) *'' E. didyma'' ( Osten Sacken, 1881) *'' E. didymoides'' Hendel, 1914 *'' E. flavipes'' ( Schiner, 1868) *'' E. floresana'' Hennig, 1941 *'' E. hilgendorfi'' Enderlein, 1924 *'' E. hyalipennis'' Malloch, 1931 *'' E. immaculata'' ( Macquart, 1843) *'' E. inflexus'' ( Fabricius, 1805) *'' E. linearis'' (

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, 1849) *'' E. metallica''

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, 1860 *'' E. nigripes'' Malloch, 1940 *'' E. potens''

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, 1930 *'' E. pulla'' Hendel, 1914 *'' E. quadrimaculata'' Hendel, 1914 *'' E. rutila'' ( Hendel, 1914) *'' E. sangiensis'' Meijere, 1916 *'' E. signatipes'' (

, 1860) *'' E. simplex''

, 1930 *'' E. sordida'' (

, 1861) *'' E. vanderwulpi'' Hendel, 1914

References

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* Diptera of Africa Diptera of Asia Platystomatidae Schizophora genera Taxa named by Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot {{Tephritoidea-stub