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Family Curtonotidae

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Ephydroidea
Family Curtonotidae
Explanation of Names
Curtonotidae Enderlein 1914
Numbers
a single species in our area(1), 65 spp. in 3 genera total(2)
Size
~7 mm(1)
Range
in our area, e. US(1)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Pape T., Blagoderov V., Mostovski M.B. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 222–229.
Contributed by John F. Carr on 14 April, 2010 - 7:04pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 25 December, 2014 - 10:29pm

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