title: Elassogaster
text: # 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
  