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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Blow Flies (Calliphoridae) » Lucilia » Blue-green Bottle Fly (Lucilia coeruleiviridis)

Species Lucilia coeruleiviridis - Blue-green Bottle Fly

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Calliphoridae - Lucilia coeruleiviridis - male Metallic Blue Green Fly - Lucilia coeruleiviridis - male Red fly - Lucilia coeruleiviridis - male Lucilia coeruleiviridis - female Blow Fly Lucilla sp. - Lucilia coeruleiviridis Reddish Blow Fly - Lucilia coeruleiviridis Blow fly - Lucilia coeruleiviridis Lucilia coeruleiviridis
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)
Genus Lucilia
Species coeruleiviridis (Blue-green Bottle Fly)
Explanation of Names
Lucilia coeruleiviridis Macquart 1855
Identification
Two pairs of postsutural archostichal bristles, palpi orange, males have very narrow frons, basicosta yellow/orange, subcostal sclerite without stout bristles(1)(2)
Range
Widespread in the US (except NW), into southern Ontario(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.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.
Contributed by v belov on 28 June, 2009 - 5:57pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd
Last updated 14 November, 2017 - 5:13pm

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