Family Curtonotidae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Works Cited

Curtonotidae-Curtonotum helvum (Loew) - Curtonotum helvum

Curtonotidae from Santa Cruz Co, Arizona - Curtonotum prolixum

Anthomyiidae? Coenosiinae? - Curtonotum helvum

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 in our area, 65 spp. in 3 genera total(1)

Size

~7 mm(2)

Range

3 species in the US: Curtonotum helvum (Loew, 1862) (Eastern US), Curtonotum floridense(3) Klymko & Marshall, 2011 (Florida), Curtonotum prolixum(4) Lindsay, 2019 (Southern Arizona)

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.

3.	Systematics of New World Curtonotum Macquart (Diptera: Curtonotidae) John Klymko & Stephen A. Marshall. 2011. Zootaxa.

4.	Revision of the Central American and Mexican species of the Curtonotum murinum species complex (Diptera: Curtonotidae) Kate G. Lindsay, John Klymko, & Stephen A. Marshall. 2019. Zootaxa.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 14 April, 2010 - 7:04pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Spencer_pote
Last updated 23 October, 2020 - 3:43pm

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