Taxon Description (Wikipedia)
The
minute black scavenger flies or
"dung midges",
Scatopsidae, is a family of flies. Despite being distributed throughout the world, it is quite 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 5mm), generally similar to black flies (Simuliidae) but usually lacking the humped thorax characteristic of that family.
The terrestrial and saprophagous.
Scatopsids are a well established group and fossils are known from amber deposits dating back to the Cretaceous period.
cosmopolitan species. Its larval stages are found in decaying plant and animal material. full article at Wikipedia
