Cedar Creek
Natural History Area
Insects of Cedar Creek
Order DIPTERA
Family CURTONOTIDAE
(Curtonotid Flies)
(Table of Species)
Curtonotus helvum
is a large pale Acalypterate taken in small numbers from a variety of fields in late summer. Larvae of a European relative are reported to be predaceous on grasshopper egg pods. Only a single NA species in this Family.
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Last updated May, 2000
