Curtonotum stuckenbergi, Tsacas, 1974

Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H. & Wiegmann, Brian M., 2013, <p> <strong> A revision of Afrotropical Quasimodo flies (Diptera: Schizophora; Curtonotidae). Part IV — the continental Afrotropical species of <em> Curtonotum </ em> Macquart, with descriptions of thirteen new species and a combined phylogenetic analysis of the Curtonotidae </ strong> </ p>, Zootaxa 3684 (1), pp. 1-166 : 51

1.2.9. Curtonotum stuckenbergi species-group

Species included: 7 (Afrotropical; confined to Madagascar).

Synapomorphy: Basiphallus heavily sclerotised, markedly expanded apically and narrowed pre-apically (47). Tsacas (1977) included all species then known from Madagascar in his cuthbertsoni species-group. Seven of the species recorded from the island are regarded as being sufficiently distinct to warrant inclusion in a species-group of their own, as attested by the above-mentioned synapomorphy. A more complete molecular study of the Malagasy Curtonotum fauna is required to ascertain whether this species-group is truly monophyletic.