Elassogaster Explained

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.^[1] Adults frequent the vicinity of dung or carcasses, where they walk while constantly waving their wings. The larvae develop in dung.^[1]

Species

E. aerea Hendel, 1914^[2]
E. anteapicalis Hendel, 1914^[2]
E. arcuata Hendel, 1914^[2]
E. brachialis (Rondani, 1873)
E. calida (Wiedemann, 1830)^[3]
E. didyma (Osten Sacken, 1881)^[4]
E. didymoides Hendel, 1914^[2]
E. flavipes (Schiner, 1868)^[5]
E. floresana Hennig, 1941
E. hilgendorfi Enderlein, 1924^[6]
E. hyalipennis Malloch, 1931^[7]
E. immaculata (Macquart, 1843)^[8]
E. inflexus (Fabricius, 1805)^[9]
E. linearis (Walker, 1849)^[10]
E. metallica Bigot, 1860
E. nigripes Malloch, 1940^[11]
E. potens Frey, 1930^[12]
E. pulla Hendel, 1914^[2]
E. quadrimaculata Hendel, 1914^[2]
E. rutila (Hendel, 1914)^[2]
E. sangiensis Meijere, 1916^[13]
E. signatipes (Walker, 1860)^[14]
E. simplex Frey, 1930^[12]
E. sordida (Walker, 1861)^[15]
E. vanderwulpi Hendel, 1914^[2]

Notes and References

Book: Picker, Mike. Field Guide to Insects of South Africa . 2004 . Struik Publishers . Cape Town . 978-1-77007-061-5 . 158. etal.
Hendel . Friedrich . Die Arten der Platystominen . Abhandlungen der K. K. Zool.-Botan. Gesellschaft in Wien. . 1914 . 8 . 1–410 . 27 January 2021.
Book: Wiedemann . Christian Rudolph Wilhelm . Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten . 1830 . 2 . 21 April 2020.
Osten Sacken . C.R. . Enumeration of the Diptera of the Malay Archipelago collected by Prof. Odoardo Beccari, Mr. L. M. d'Albertis and others . Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova . 1881 . (1880-1881) 16 . 393–492 . 27 January 2021.
Book: Schiner . I.R. . Diptera. In [Wullerstorf-Urbair, B. von (in charge)], Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara. Zool. (1) . 2. 1868 . B. K. Gerold's Sohn . Wien . vi + 388 pp., 4 pls.
Enderlein . Günther . Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Platystominen . Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen . 1924 . 99–153.
Malloch . J. R. . Notes on some acalyptrate flies in the United States National Museum. . Proceedings of the United States National Museum . 1931 . 78 . 15 . 1–32 . 23 December 2019.
Macquart. P. J. M.. Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus.. Tome deuxieme.--3e partie. Roret, Paris. 1843. 304 pp., 36 pls.
Book: Fabricius . Johann Christian . Systema antliatorum secundum ordines, genera, species . 1805 . Apud Carolum Reichard . Bransvigae . i-xiv, 1–373. 5 June 2020.
Book: Walker . F. . List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum . 1849 . IV . 3] + 689–1172 + [2] . British Museum (Natural History) . London. 27 January 2021.
Malloch . J.R. . The Otitidae and Phytalmidae of the Solomon Islands (Diptera) . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 1940 . 6 . 11 . 66–98.
Frey . R. . Philippinische Dipteren. VII. Fam.Platystomidae . Notulae Ent. . 1930 . 10 . 46–64, pl. 1 .
Meijere . J.C.H. de . Fauna Simalurensis-Diptera . Tijdschrift voor Entomologie (1915) (Suppl.) . 1916 . 58 . 1–63 . 27 January 2021.
Walker . F. . Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected in Amboyna by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species . Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology . 1860 . 5 (suppl.) . 144–168 . 27 January 2021.
Walker . F. . Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Dorey, New Guinea, by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species . Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology . 1861 . 5 . 229–254 . 27 January 2021.