# Elephantotus

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{{Short description|Genus of flies}}
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| taxon = Elephantotus
| authority = Gorayeb, 2014<ref name="Gorayeb2014">{{cite journal |last1=Gorayeb |first1=I.S. |title=Tabanidae (Diptera) of Amazônia XXI. Descriptions of ''Elephantotus'' gen. n. and ''E. tracuateuensis'' sp. n. (Dicholorini) from the Brazilian coast |journal=ZooKeys |date=2014 |issue=395 |pages=23–31 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.395.7056 |doi-access=free |pmid=24715787 |pmc=3978235 |bibcode=2014ZooK..395....1G |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3676 |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
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| type_species = ''[Elephantotus tracuateuensis](/source/Elephantotus_tracuateuensis)''
| type_species_authority = Gorayeb, 2014<ref name="Gorayeb2014"/>
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'''''Elephantotus''''' is a genus of [horse flies](/source/horse_fly) in the family [Tabanidae](/source/Horse-fly).<ref name="Moucha1976">{{cite journal |last1=Moucha |first1=J. |title=Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue. |journal=Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplements |date=1976 |volume=7 |pages=1–320 |url=https://www.aemnp.eu/data/article-975/956-7_0_7.pdf |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref>  Inocêncio de S. Gorayeb was the author of this taxon's scientific name, published in 2014.

==Species==
*''[Elephantotus tracuateuensis](/source/Elephantotus_tracuateuensis)'' <small>Gorayeb, 2014</small><ref name="Gorayeb2014"/>

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Category:Tabanidae
Category:Brachycera genera
Category:Flies of South America

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