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Species Cynomya cadaverina - Shiny Blue Bottle Fly

Blue fly of some sort - 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

Species cadaverina (Shiny Blue Bottle Fly)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cynomyopsis cadaverina (1)

Explanation of Names

Cynomya cadaverina Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Identification

Lacks a presutural intra-alar bristle (character state also present in the western Calliphora grahami)(2)

Range

NA (widespread: AK to Greenland, south to CA-TX-GA)(1)(3)

Habitat

Common on carrion and excrement(4)

Season

Most common in fall and spring(4)

Food

Decaying materials, especially carrion/excrement(4)

Remarks

known to cause myiasis in older wounds(4)

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.	Cluster flies (Calliphoridae: Polleniinae: Pollenia) of North America Adam Jewiss-Gaines, Stephen A. Marshall, and Terry L. Whitworth. 2012. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification.

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

4.	Blow flies (Diptera;Calliphoridae) of eastern Canada with a key to Calliphoridae subfamilies and genera of eastern North America Marshall S.A., Whitworth T., Roscoe L. 2011. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 11: 1-93.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 3 April, 2007 - 1:45pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Andrew Meeds, v belov
Last updated 28 January, 2020 - 4:53pm

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