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Green Blow Fly Close Ups (dorsal thorax & head) - Lucilia mexicana - female
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Green Blow Fly Close Ups (dorsal thorax & head) - Lucilia mexicana - Female
Tonopah Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
April 4, 2015
Size: 9mm
Note, the ocellar triangle (of females) reaches less than halfway to the lunule. (top of the eye-gap area, at the top-middle of the head)(gray color on black background)
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Green Blow Fly Close Ups (lateral) - Lucilia mexicana - female Green Blow Fly Close Ups (lateral-front) - Lucilia mexicana - female Green Blow Fly Close Ups (wings) - Lucilia mexicana - female Green Blow Fly Close Ups (dorsal thorax & head) - Lucilia mexicana - female Green Blow Fly Close Ups (face) - Lucilia mexicana - female Green Blow Fly Close Ups (dorsal) - Lucilia mexicana - female
Contributed by Bob Biagi on 7 April, 2015 - 9:35am
Last updated 25 December, 2016 - 7:59pm

Moved
Moved from Lucilia.
… Bob Biagi, 22 May, 2016 - 8:04pm

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