| Curtonotidae | |
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| Curtonota gibbum from Macquart, 1838 Insectes diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Superfamily: | Ephydroidea |
| Family: | Curtonotidae Enderlein, 1914 |
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The Curtotonidae or quasimodo flies[1] are a small family of small grey to dark brown humpbacked flies (Diptera) with a worldwide distribution, but with very few species in the Nearctic, Australasian/Oceanian, and Palaearctic regions. Most members of the family are found in tropical to subtropical latitudes in Africa and the Neotropics. Many remain undescribed in collections, since little work on the family has been done since the 1930s.[2]
- ^ Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. (2011). "A revision of Afrotropical Quasimodo flies (Diptera: Schizophora; Curtonotidae). Part III - the Malagasy species of Curtonotum Macquart, with descriptions of six new species". African Invertebrates. 52 (2). KwaZulu-Natal: KwaZulu-Natal Museum: 391–456. doi:10.5733/afin.052.0212.
- ^ Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. (2010). "A revision of Afrotropical Quasimodo flies (Diptera: Curtonotidae: Schizophora). Part II – the East African Afromontane genus Tigrisomyia gen. n., with descriptions of four new species". African Entomology. 18: 127–146. doi:10.4001/003.018.0111.