词条 | Elassogaster |
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| image = Elassogaster sp, Skeerpoort, c.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Elassogaster sp. in South Africa | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Arthropoda | classis = Insecta | ordo = Diptera | superfamilia = Tephritoidea | familia = Platystomatidae | subfamilia = Platystomatinae | genus = Elassogaster | genus_authority = Bigot, 1860 | synonyms = *Epicausta Loew, 1873
}} 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] SpeciesThe species include:[3]
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Elassogaster Bigot, 1860|url=http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:75cab51e-27ad-42fc-88bf-061ba58ea529#tab_names|work=Atlas of Living Australia|accessdate=20 January 2014}} 2. ^1 {{cite book|last=Picker |first=Mike|title=Field Guide to Insects of South Africa |year=2004 |publisher=Struik Publishers |location=Cape Town |isbn=978-1-77007-061-5 |page=158|display-authors=etal}} 3. ^{{cite web |title= Elassogaster|url=http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Elassogaster/classification/ |work=Animal Diversity Web |publisher=University of Michigan |accessdate=20 January 2014}} External links
4 : Diptera of Africa|Platystomatidae|Schizophora genera|Taxa named by Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot |
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