Genus Cynomya

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited

Shiny Blue Bottle Fly - Cynomya cadaverina

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Oestroidea

Family Calliphoridae (Blow Flies)

Subfamily Calliphorinae

Genus Cynomya

Explanation of Names

Cynomya Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Numbers

2 spp. in our area: C. cadaverina (widespread) & C. mortuorum* (Linnaeus 1761) (Alaska, Eurasia)(1)

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*=Cynomya hirta Hough [erroneously treated as valid in(2)]

Identification

One of several genera of Calliphoridae with a metallic abdomen and a non-metallic thorax. Stem vein bare, calypters white, presutural intra-alar bristle absent.

Works Cited

1.	Keys to the genera and species of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of America north of Mexico Whitworth T.L. 2006. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 108: 689–725.

2.	Thompson F.C., Pape T., Evenhuis N.L. (2013) Systema Dipterorum, Version 1.5

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 3 April, 2007 - 1:44pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 18 March, 2017 - 5:36pm

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