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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Ephydroidea » Curtonotidae

Family Curtonotidae

Representative Images

Curtonotidae-Curtonotum helvum (Loew) - Curtonotum helvum Curtonotidae from Santa Cruz Co, Arizona - Curtonotum prolixum Curtonotidae from Santa Cruz Co, Arizona - Curtonotum prolixum Curtonotidae from Santa Cruz Co, Arizona - Curtonotum prolixum Anthomyiidae? Coenosiinae? - Curtonotum helvum Curtonotum floridense Flies - Curtonotum helvum - male - female Flies - Curtonotum helvum - male - female

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

3 species (all Curtonotum) in our area, 65 spp. in 4 genera total(1)(Kirk-Spriggs 2010)

Size

~7 mm(2)

Range

worldwide, mostly tropical, meagerly represented in NA, Australasian, and Palaearctic regions

Works Cited

1.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.
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
Contributed by John F. Carr on 14 April, 2010 - 7:04pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Spencer_pote
Last updated 30 May, 2023 - 5:33pm

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