Elassogaster
# Elassogaster

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. 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 (Walker, 1849)
* E. metallica Bigot, 1860
* E. nigripes Malloch, 1940
* E. potens Frey, 1930
* E. pulla Hendel, 1914
* E. quadrimaculata Hendel, 1914
* E. rutila (Hendel, 1914)
* E. sangiensis Meijere, 1916
* E. signatipes (Walker, 1860)
* E. simplex Frey, 1930
* E. sordida (Walker, 1861)
* E. vanderwulpi Hendel, 1914
