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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » House Flies and kin (Muscidae) » Muscinae » Muscini » Neomyia » Neomyia cornicina
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Common Green Bottle Fly ? - Neomyia cornicina - male
Copyright © 2009 Sam Houston

Common Green Bottle Fly ? - Neomyia cornicina - Male
Sand Springs, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
January 18, 2009
Size: 5mm (3/16")
Lucilia sericata ?
Please help with ID.

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Common Green Bottle Fly ? - Neomyia cornicina - male Common Green Bottle Fly ? - Neomyia cornicina - male
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Contributed by Sam Houston on 18 January, 2009 - 7:30pm
Last updated 15 April, 2017 - 8:03am

Moved
Moved from Images identified by Dr. Whitworth as “probable Lucilia”.
… John F. Carr, 15 June, 2011 - 8:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Blow Flies.
… v belov, 28 June, 2009 - 6:54pm login or register to post comments

Weird
Where Lucilia flies are supposed to have two or three hairs, this has a single hair.

… John F. Carr, 18 January, 2009 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Weirdness explained
It has a single hair because it's Neomyia.
… John F. Carr, 15 June, 2011 - 2:16pm login or register to post comments

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