sentences:  In 1934 Duda proposed the family name Curtonotidae and nowadays family rank is now widely accepted.Greathead (1958) records the immature stages as scavengers within egg pods of the desert locust, "Schistocerca gregaria" .Cuthbertson (1936) reared an Afrotropical species, "Cyrtona albomacula" Curran, from human faeces in Zimbabwe.