Scatopsidae {family} - Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera;

The minute black scavenger flies or "dung midges", are a family, Scatopsidae, of nematoceran flies. Despite being distributed throughout the world, they form a small family with only around 250 described species in 27 genera, although many await description and doubtless even more await discovery. These are generally small, sometimes minute, dark flies (from 0.6 to 5 mm), generally similar to black flies (Simuliidae), but usually lacking the humped thorax characteristic of that family. The larvae of most species are unknown, but the few that have been studied have a rather flattened shape and are terrestrial and saprophagous. Scatopsids are a well established group and fossils are known from amber deposits dating back to the Cretaceous period. Scatopse notata (Linnaeus, 1758) is a cosmopolitan species. Its larval stages are found in decaying plant and animal material. full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	20,851	Public Records:	11,079
Specimens with Sequences:	20,752	Public Species:	33
Specimens with Barcodes:	20,641	Public BINs:	571
Species:	41
Species With Barcodes:	31
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Costa Rica 5965 Norway 400 Peru 202 Pakistan 3849 Australia 394 China 165 Canada 2080 Thailand 387 Trinidad and Tobago 147 Suriname 1398 Germany 304 Indonesia 147 Bangladesh 1067 Malaysia 261 Mexico 122 United States 955 Ecuador 228 Bulgaria 76 South Africa 669 Lebanon 212