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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'' (

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, 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'' (

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, 1805) *'' E. linearis'' ( Walker, 1849) *'' E. metallica'' Bigot, 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'' ( Walker, 1860) *'' E. simplex''

, 1930 *'' E. sordida'' ( Walker, 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