Elaphromyia Bigot Elaphromyia Bigot, 1859: 314. Type species Elaphromyia melas Bigot, 1859 (= Trypeta adatha Walker, 1849). Paralleloptera Bezzi, 1913: 154. Type species Paralleloptera pterocallaeformis Bezzi, 1913. Diagnosis: Small to medium-sized flies (2–5 mm), with elongate, parallel-sided, predominantly brown wing (Figs. 1, 6, 15–16) with a series of subhyaline spots/markings, a series of marginal spots and the dorsal setulae on vein R 1 without a gap posterior to the end of vein Sc. Epandrium bar-shaped in profile without demarcation between epandrium and lateral surstylus, proctiger smaller than epandrium, glans of phallus with acrophallus patterned and broadly bifid. Taeniae elongate, reaching more than three-quarters length of eversible membrane, aculeus with apex flattened in sagittal plane, two dark brown to black spermathecae with numerous projections.

Published as part of David, K. J., Hancock, D. L., Sachin, K., Ramya, R. S. & Ramani, S., 2021, Taxonomic notes on the genus Elaphromyia Bigot (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae: Pliomelaenini) in India, with description of a new species, pp. 251-262 in Zootaxa 5023 (2) on page 252, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5225884