Catalogue of Neotropical Curtonotidae (Diptera, Ephydroidea)

Abstract

The Neotropical species of Curtonotidae are updated and catalogued. A total of 33 species names are listed, including two fossil taxa and one nomem dubium. Valid and invalid names and synonyms are presented, totaling 45 names. Bibliographic references are given to all listed species, including information about name, author, year of publication, page number, type species and type locality. Lectotype and paralectotypes are designated to Curtonotum punctithorax (Fischer, 1933). Curtonotum simplex Schiner, 1868 stat. rev. is recognized as a valid name.

Checklist of the dipterofauna (Insecta) from Roraima, Brazil, with special reference to the Brazilian Ecological Station of Maracá

“…This cosmopolitan family is commonly found in tropical and subtropical areas of the globe, and it currently comprises only four extant genera, two of them present in the New World: Diplocentra Loew, 1862 and Curtonotum Macquart, 1843. Curtonotum has 76 described species worldwide and 20 species occurring in the Neotropical region (Mello & Pereira-Colavite, 2018;Mello, 2021a). The adults are hunchbacked, greyish to brown and vary between 4 and 12 mm in length.…”

“…The adults are hunchbacked, greyish to brown and vary between 4 and 12 mm in length. Some Neotropical species occur on dung baits and in association with fallen trees (Mello & Pereira-Colavite, 2018), but the larval habits remain unknown. Six species of the genus Curtonotum occur in the Amazon basin (Mello, 2021a), but the identified material is the first formal record of the genus in Roraima (Table 2).…”