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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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Green Bottle Fly - Neomyia cornicina
Copyright © 2009 Sam Houston

Green Bottle Fly - Neomyia cornicina
Sand Springs, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
February 5, 2009
Size: 5mm (3/16")
I think this is a Green Bottle Fly but why does it have a red tinge to it?
Please help with ID.
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Contributed by Sam Houston on 6 February, 2009 - 11:55pm
Last updated 9 November, 2018 - 10:03am

Moved
Moved from Lucilia.
… Even Dankowicz, 9 November, 2018 - 10:03am login or register to post comments

Lucilia...
This is a blowfly in the genus Lucilia. It is not that unusual for these flies to have a bronze-tinged thorax. The European or common green blowfly (L. sericata) is an example of a species with this coloration pattern, although more details would be needed for a positive species ID here. I do know, however, that this one's a girl.

See reference here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/7176
… Ross Hill, 18 February, 2009 - 3:48pm login or register to post comments

 
....
What other details would be required for species?
… Sam Houston, 18 February, 2009 - 4:02pm login or register to post comments

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