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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Blow Flies (Calliphoridae) » images reviewed by Dr. Whitworth and deemed further unIDable (temp.page)
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screw worm fly (two images)
Copyright © 2004 David A Burke

screw worm fly (two images)
5200 ft elevation NW, Wyoming, USA
July 22, 2004
two images here. I thought the screw worm fly, rather than the bottle fly. ??
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Contributed by David A Burke on 26 December, 2004 - 7:26pm
Last updated 28 June, 2009 - 6:40pm

Moved
Moved from Blow Flies.
… v belov, 28 June, 2009 - 6:40pm login or register to post comments

Blow fly
I agree this is a blow fly, family Calliphoridae, but screw worm flies are not brightly metallic. The secondary screw worm fly, Cochliomyia macellaria, is dull metallic greenish, with three obvious black stripes on the thorax. My guess for this specimen is Lucilia sp.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 December, 2004 - 11:50am login or register to post comments

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