# Elephantomyia

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***Elephantomyia*** is a genus of [crane fly](/source/Tipuloidea) in the family [Limoniidae](/source/Limoniidae).[1]

## Species

Subgenus *[Elephantomyia](/source/Elephantomyia_(subgenus))* [Osten Sacken](/source/Carl_Robert_Osten-Sacken), 1860

- *[E. adirondacensis](/source/Elephantomyia_adirondacensis)* [Alexander](/source/Charles_Paul_Alexander), 1943
- *[E. alticola](/source/Elephantomyia_alticola)* Alexander, 1925
- *[E. angustissima](/source/Elephantomyia_angustissima)* Alexander, 1931
- *[E. arcuaria](/source/Elephantomyia_arcuaria)* Alexander, 1945
- *[E. argentipleura](/source/Elephantomyia_argentipleura)* Alexander, 1970
- *[E. atropleura](/source/Elephantomyia_atropleura)* Alexander, 1955
- *[E. aurantiaca](/source/Elephantomyia_aurantiaca)* Alexander, 1917
- *[E. banksi](/source/Elephantomyia_banksi)* Alexander, 1927
- *[E. barda](/source/Elephantomyia_barda)* Alexander, 1955
- [†](/source/Extinct)*[E. baltica](/source/Elephantomyia_baltica)* Alexander, 1931[1]
- †*[E. brevipalpa](/source/Elephantomyia_brevipalpa)* ([Loew](/source/Hermann_Loew), 1850) [1]
- *[E. boliviensis](/source/Elephantomyia_boliviensis)* Alexander, 1930
- †*[E. bozenae](/source/Elephantomyia_bozenae)* Kania, 2015[1]
- *[E. brunneipennis](/source/Elephantomyia_brunneipennis)* Alexander, 1938
- *[E. carbo](/source/Elephantomyia_carbo)* Alexander, 1938
- *[E. ceratocheiloides](/source/Elephantomyia_ceratocheiloides)* Alexander, 1930
- *[E. chionopoda](/source/Elephantomyia_chionopoda)* Alexander, 1943
- *[E. chiriquiana](/source/Elephantomyia_chiriquiana)* Alexander, 1945
- *[E. cinctiventris](/source/Elephantomyia_cinctiventris)* Alexander, 1967
- *[E. clitellaria](/source/Elephantomyia_clitellaria)* Alexander, 1929
- *[E. corniculata](/source/Elephantomyia_corniculata)* Ribeiro & Souza Amorim, 2002
- *[E. curtirostris](/source/Elephantomyia_curtirostris)* Alexander, 1947
- *[E. decincta](/source/Elephantomyia_decincta)* Alexander, 1962
- *[E. dietziana](/source/Elephantomyia_dietziana)* Alexander, 1930
- *[E. dikopos](/source/Elephantomyia_dikopos)* Alexander, 1974
- *[E. distinctior](/source/Elephantomyia_distinctior)* Alexander, 1952
- *[E. edwardsi](/source/Elephantomyia_edwardsi)* Lackschewitz, 1932
- *[E. filiform](/source/Elephantomyia_filiform)* (Walker, 1865)
- *[E. flaveola](/source/Elephantomyia_flaveola)* Pierre, 1924
- *[E. flavicolor](/source/Elephantomyia_flavicolor)* Alexander, 1958
- *[E. fumipes](/source/Elephantomyia_fumipes)* Alexander, 1928
- *[E. fuscodorsata](/source/Elephantomyia_fuscodorsata)* Alexander, 1955
- *[E. garrigouana](/source/Elephantomyia_garrigouana)* Alexander, 1951
- *[E. glabrata](/source/Elephantomyia_glabrata)* Alexander, 1956
- *[E. grahami](/source/Elephantomyia_grahami)* Alexander, 1957
- *[E. hargreavesi](/source/Elephantomyia_hargreavesi)* Alexander, 1930
- *[E. hokkaidensis](/source/Elephantomyia_hokkaidensis)* Alexander, 1924
- *[E. hoogstraaliana](/source/Elephantomyia_hoogstraaliana)* Alexander, 1951
- *[E. humilis](/source/Elephantomyia_humilis)* Alexander, 1931
- *[E. inaequistyla](/source/Elephantomyia_inaequistyla)* Alexander, 1974
- *[E. insolita](/source/Elephantomyia_insolita)* Alexander, 1940
- *[E. insularis](/source/Elephantomyia_insularis)* [Edwards](/source/Frederick_Wallace_Edwards), 1912
- *[E. inulta](/source/Elephantomyia_inulta)* Alexander, 1938
- †*[E. irinae](/source/Elephantomyia_irinae)* Kania, 2015[1]
- *[E. isakana](/source/Elephantomyia_isakana)* Alexander, 1955
- *[E. juquiensis](/source/Elephantomyia_juquiensis)* Alexander, 1945
- *[E. krivosheinae](/source/Elephantomyia_krivosheinae)* Savchenko, 1976
- *[E. laetifica](/source/Elephantomyia_laetifica)* Alexander, 1960
- †*[E. longirostris](/source/Elephantomyia_longirostris)* (Loew, 1850)[1]
- *[E. laticincta](/source/Elephantomyia_laticincta)* Alexander, 1971
- *[E. luculenta](/source/Elephantomyia_luculenta)* Alexander, 1928
- *[E. luteiannulata](/source/Elephantomyia_luteiannulata)* Alexander, 1939
- *[E. luteipennis](/source/Elephantomyia_luteipennis)* Alexander, 1934
- *[E. maculistigma](/source/Elephantomyia_maculistigma)* ([Enderlein](/source/G%C3%BCnther_Enderlein), 1912)
- *[E. meridionalis](/source/Elephantomyia_meridionalis)* Alexander, 1913
- *[E. montana](/source/Elephantomyia_montana)* Alexander, 1934
- *[E. mossambica](/source/Elephantomyia_mossambica)* Alexander, 1960
- *[E. multisignata](/source/Elephantomyia_multisignata)* Alexander, 1965
- *[E. multizona](/source/Elephantomyia_multizona)* Alexander, 1971
- *[E. neavei](/source/Elephantomyia_neavei)* Alexander, 1920
- *[E. niphopoda](/source/Elephantomyia_niphopoda)* Alexander, 1971
- *[E. nitidithorax](/source/Elephantomyia_nitidithorax)* Alexander, 1920
- *[E. niveipes](/source/Elephantomyia_niveipes)* Alexander, 1964
- *[E. orthorhabda](/source/Elephantomyia_orthorhabda)* Alexander, 1971
- *[E. ovalistigma](/source/Elephantomyia_ovalistigma)* Alexander, 1956
- *[E. palmata](/source/Elephantomyia_palmata)* Alexander, 1947
- *[E. pauliani](/source/Elephantomyia_pauliani)* Alexander, 1959
- *[E. pendleburyi](/source/Elephantomyia_pendleburyi)* Edwards, 1928
- *[E. pertenuis](/source/Elephantomyia_pertenuis)* Alexander, 1970
- *[E. pictithorax](/source/Elephantomyia_pictithorax)* Alexander, 1930
- *[E. pictivena](/source/Elephantomyia_pictivena)* Alexander, 1961
- *[E. pictiventris](/source/Elephantomyia_pictiventris)* Alexander, 1946
- *[E. pleurolineata](/source/Elephantomyia_pleurolineata)* Alexander, 1956
- *[E. primitiva](/source/Elephantomyia_primitiva)* Alexander, 1943
- *[E. primogenia](/source/Elephantomyia_primogenia)* Alexander, 1948
- *[E. pringlei](/source/Elephantomyia_pringlei)* Alexander, 1958
- *[E. pseudosimilis](/source/Elephantomyia_pseudosimilis)* Alexander, 1921
- †*[E. pulchella](/source/Elephantomyia_pulchella)* (Loew, 1850)[1]
- *[E. satura](/source/Elephantomyia_satura)* Alexander, 1956
- *[E. schwetzi](/source/Elephantomyia_schwetzi)* Alexander, 1930
- *[E. scimitar](/source/Elephantomyia_scimitar)* Alexander, 1971
- *[E. serotina](/source/Elephantomyia_serotina)* Alexander, 1930
- *[E. serrulifera](/source/Elephantomyia_serrulifera)* Alexander, 1949
- *[E. setosa](/source/Elephantomyia_setosa)* Alexander, 1956
- *[E. setulistyla](/source/Elephantomyia_setulistyla)* Alexander, 1938
- *[E. sordidipes](/source/Elephantomyia_sordidipes)* Alexander, 1962
- *[E. subhumilis](/source/Elephantomyia_subhumilis)* Alexander, 1938
- *[E. subterminalis](/source/Elephantomyia_subterminalis)* Alexander, 1954
- *[E. takachihoi](/source/Elephantomyia_takachihoi)* Ito, 1948
- *[E. tarsalba](/source/Elephantomyia_tarsalba)* Alexander, 1929
- *[E. tenuissima](/source/Elephantomyia_tenuissima)* Alexander, 1944
- *[E. tetracantha](/source/Elephantomyia_tetracantha)* Alexander, 1954
- *[E. tigriventris](/source/Elephantomyia_tigriventris)* Alexander, 1942
- *[E. tomicola](/source/Elephantomyia_tomicola)* Alexander, 1957
- *[E. unicincta](/source/Elephantomyia_unicincta)* Alexander, 1962
- *[E. vesca](/source/Elephantomyia_vesca)* Ribeiro & Souza Amorim, 2002
- *[E. wahlbergi](/source/Elephantomyia_wahlbergi)* Bergroth, 1888
- *[E. westwoodi](/source/Elephantomyia_westwoodi)* [Osten Sacken](/source/Carl_Robert_Osten-Sacken), 1869
- *[E. zonata](/source/Elephantomyia_zonata)* Savchenko, 1976

Subgenus *[Elephantomyina](/source/Elephantomyina)* Alexander, 1938

- *[E. supernumeraria](/source/Elephantomyia_supernumeraria)* Alexander, 1921

Subgenus *[Elephantomyodes](/source/Elephantomyodes)* Alexander, 1923

- *[E. affluens](/source/Elephantomyia_affluens)* Alexander, 1949
- *[E. angusticellula](/source/Elephantomyia_angusticellula)* Alexander, 1936
- *[E. argenteocincta](/source/Elephantomyia_argenteocincta)* ([Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)), 1856)
- *[E. argyrophora](/source/Elephantomyia_argyrophora)* Alexander, 1947
- *[E. aurantia](/source/Elephantomyia_aurantia)* [Brunetti](/source/Enrico_Adelelmo_Brunetti), 1918
- *[E. brachyrhyncha](/source/Elephantomyia_brachyrhyncha)* Alexander, 1947
- *[E. daedalus](/source/Elephantomyia_daedalus)* Alexander, 1947
- *[E. delectata](/source/Elephantomyia_delectata)* (Walker, 1864)
- *[E. diligens](/source/Elephantomyia_diligens)* Alexander, 1947
- *[E. egregia](/source/Elephantomyia_egregia)* de Meijere, 1913
- *[E. fulvithorax](/source/Elephantomyia_fulvithorax)* Alexander, 1971
- *[E. fumicosta](/source/Elephantomyia_fumicosta)* Alexander, 1922
- *[E. fuscomarginata](/source/Elephantomyia_fuscomarginata)* Enderlein, 1912
- *[E. handschini](/source/Elephantomyia_handschini)* Alexander, 1936
- *[E. hyalibasis](/source/Elephantomyia_hyalibasis)* Alexander, 1947
- *[E. infumosa](/source/Elephantomyia_infumosa)* Alexander, 1935
- *[E. mackerrasi](/source/Elephantomyia_mackerrasi)* Alexander, 1934
- *[E. major](/source/Elephantomyia_major)* Alexander, 1923
- *[E. nana](/source/Elephantomyia_nana)* Alexander, 1951
- *[E. nigriceps](/source/Elephantomyia_nigriceps)* Edwards, 1926
- *[E. nigriclava](/source/Elephantomyia_nigriclava)* Edwards, 1933
- *[E. nigropedata](/source/Elephantomyia_nigropedata)* Alexander, 1956
- *[E. percuneata](/source/Elephantomyia_percuneata)* Alexander, 1973
- *[E. ruapehuensis](/source/Elephantomyia_ruapehuensis)* Alexander, 1923
- *[E. samarensis](/source/Elephantomyia_samarensis)* Alexander, 1925
- *[E. sophiarum](/source/Elephantomyia_sophiarum)* Ito, 1948
- *[E. suffusa](/source/Elephantomyia_suffusa)* Alexander, 1971
- *[E. tasmaniensis](/source/Elephantomyia_tasmaniensis)* Alexander, 1928
- *[E. tayloriana](/source/Elephantomyia_tayloriana)* Alexander, 1935
- *[E. zealandica](/source/Elephantomyia_zealandica)* Edwards, 1923

Subgenus *[Xenoelephantomyia](/source/Xenoelephantomyia)* Alexander, 1965

- *[E. penai](/source/Elephantomyia_penai)* Alexander, 1965

## References

1. Kania, I (2015). "Subfamily Limoniinae Speiser, 1909 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic Amber (Eocene): The Genus *Elephantomyia* Osten Sacken, 1860". *PLOS ONE*. **10** (2): 1–25. [Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1017434K](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015PLoSO..1017434K). [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117434](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117434). [PMC 4338262](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4338262). [PMID 25706127](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25706127)

- ["Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae)"](https://ccw.naturalis.nl/). Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

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