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Green Blow Fly Close Ups (face) - Lucilia mexicana - female
Copyright © 2015 Bob Biagi

Green Blow Fly Close Ups (face) - Lucilia mexicana - Female
Tonopah Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
April 4, 2015
Size: 9mm
Note, the eye gap is wide and the inner eye-lines are angled or kinked. = ♀
Note, the front row of two postsutural acrostichal setae are missing (on this species) and you can easily see that here in this image. (middle of the thorax dorsal surface, just to the left of the dark, straight line that marks the junction of the pronotum)
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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 - 8:11pm

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

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… Bob Biagi, 7 April, 2015 - 6:00pm

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