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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Blow Flies (Calliphoridae) » Lucilia
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copper-colored blow fly - Lucilia - male
Copyright © 2020 Larry Reis

copper-colored blow fly - Lucilia - Male
Hayden Prairie State Preserve, Howard County, Iowa, USA
July 13, 2019
Size: ~8 mm
This fly has the colors to be called a bronze bottle fly, but I know there are other blow flies that can be bronze-colored too. I don't know if my photos are good enough to get even a genus ID since I only have views from above, but this is the first bronze blow fly I've found and am interested in knowing more about it.

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Contributed by Larry Reis on 12 January, 2020 - 8:16am

Moved
Moved from Blow Flies.
… John F. Carr, 12 January, 2020 - 8:23am login or register to post comments

Lucilia
Lucilia, but despite the color it is not cuprina.
… John F. Carr, 12 January, 2020 - 8:22am login or register to post comments

 
Lucilia
Thanks for your comments about this copper-colored blow fly, John. When I saw the distribution for L. cuprina, I was skeptical about that species as a possibility.
… Larry Reis, 12 January, 2020 - 10:32am login or register to post comments

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