Elassogaster
Elassogaster | |
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Elassogaster sp. in South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Superfamily: | Tephritoidea |
Family: | Platystomatidae |
Subfamily: | Platystomatinae |
Genus: | Elassogaster Bigot, 1860 |
Synonyms | |
Elassogaster is a genus of scavenger flies (Diptera) belonging to the family Platystomatidae. They are native to warm regions of Africa, Madagascar and Australia.
They have rounded heads with red eyes, a shiny green thorax and a dark stigma on the wing tips.[2] Adults frequent the vicinity of dung or carcasses, where they walk while constantly waving their wings. The larvae develop in dung.[2]
Species
The species include:[3]
- Elassogaster aerea
- Elassogaster anteapicalis
- Elassogaster arcuata
- Elassogaster brachialis
- Elassogaster calida
- Elassogaster didyma
- Elassogaster didymoides
- Elassogaster flavipes
- Elassogaster floresana
- Elassogaster hilgendorfi
- Elassogaster hyalipennis
- Elassogaster immaculata
- Elassogaster inflexa
- Elassogaster linearis
- Elassogaster metallica
- Elassogaster nigripes
- Elassogaster potens
- Elassogaster pulla
- Elassogaster quadrimaculata
- Elassogaster rutila
- Elassogaster sangiensis
- Elassogaster signatipes
- Elassogaster sordida
- Elassogaster sordidus
- Elassogaster vanderwulpi
References
- ↑ "Elassogaster Bigot, 1860". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- 1 2 Picker, Mike; et al. (2004). Field Guide to Insects of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-77007-061-5.
- ↑ "Elassogaster". Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
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