Elachisoma

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Diptera

| familia = Sphaeroceridae

| subfamilia = Limosininae

| genus = Elachisoma

| genus_authority = Rondani, 1880{{cite journal|last1=Rondani|first1=Camillo|title=Species italicae ordinis dipterorum (Muscaria Rndn.) collectae et observatae. Stirps XXV. Copromyzinae Zett|journal=Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana|date=1880|volume=12|pages=3–45|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39661#page/311/mode/1up|accessdate=7 November 2017}}

| synonyms = *Elachiosoma Spuler, 1925{{cite journal|last1=Spuler|first1=Anthony|title=Studies in North American Borboridae (Diptera)|journal=The Canadian Entomologist|date=1925|volume=57|pages=116–124}}

• Elachisona Vanschuytbroeck, 1950{{cite journal|last1=Vanschuytbroeck|first1=P.|title=Diptères Sphaeroceridae du Musée du Congo belge|journal=Annales du Musée du Congo Belge, Tervuren, Série in 8 o (Sciences Zoologiques)|date=1950|volume=5|pages=5–46}}

| type_species = Limosina nigerrima

| type_species_authority = Haliday, 1836{{cite journal|last1=Haliday|first1=Alexander Henry|title=British species of the Dipterous tribe Sphaeroceridae|journal=Entomological Magazine|date=1836|volume=3|pages=315–336}}

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Elachisoma is a genus of flies belonging to the family Lesser Dung flies.{{cite book|last1=Rohček|first1=Jindřich|last2=Marshall|first2=Stephen A.|last3=Norrbom|first3=Allen L.|last4=Buck|first4=Matthias|last5=Quiros|first5=Dora Isabel|last6=Smith|first6=Ian|editor1-last=Rohček|editor1-first=Jindřich|title=World Catalog of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera)|date=2001|publisher=Slezské Zemské Muzeum|location=Opava|isbn=978-8086224213|pages=1–414|url=http://www.uoguelph.ca/debu/catalog.htm|accessdate=3 September 2017}}