''Elmoia'' is a genus of

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in the family

Dolichopodidae Dolichopodidae, the long-legged flies, are a large, cosmopolitan family of true flies with more than 8,000 described species in about 250 genera. The genus '' Dolichopus'' is the most speciose, with some 600 species. Dolichopodidae generally a ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...

. It is part of the '' Eurynogaster'' complex of genera. The genus is named in honor of D. Elmo Hardy.

Species

* '' Elmoia bullata'' (Hardy & Kohn, 1964) * '' Elmoia exartema'' (Hardy & Kohn, 1964) * '' Elmoia hamata'' (Hardy & Kohn, 1964) * '' Elmoia lanceolata'' ( Tenorio, 1969) * '' Elmoia multispinosa'' (Hardy & Kohn, 1964) * '' Elmoia nigrohalterata'' (

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, 1939) * '' Elmoia saxatilis'' ( Grimshaw, 1901) * '' Elmoia viridifacies'' (

, 1938)

References

Dolichopodidae Dolichopodidae genera Insects of Hawaii Endemic fauna of Hawaii {{Dolichopodidae-stub