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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Blow Flies (Calliphoridae) » Chrysomyinae » Screwworm Flies (Cochliomyia)

Genus Cochliomyia - Screwworm Flies

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Secondary Screwworm, perhaps? - Cochliomyia macellaria Blue fly on goldenrod - Cochliomyia macellaria Calliphoridae? - Cochliomyia macellaria - female Secondary screwworm - Cochliomyia macellaria - male Cochliomyia ? - Cochliomyia macellaria screwworm fly? - Cochliomyia macellaria Secondary Screwworm Fly - Cochliomyia macellaria Cochliomyia macellaria? - Cochliomyia macellaria
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 Chrysomyinae
Genus Cochliomyia (Screwworm Flies)
Explanation of Names
Cochliomyia Townsend 1915
'snail fly'
Numbers
4 spp., all in our area(1)(2)
Range
in our area, throughout US to so. Canada; 2 spp. are Neotropical and only reach so. FL, one has been eradicated (formerly widespread in so. US north to SC-IN-IA-c.CA), so C. macellaria is the only species one may expect to encounter(1)
Remarks
two spp. cause myiasis and considered pests: C. hominivorax (Primary Screwworm, extirpated) and C. macellaria (Secondary Screwworm, widespread)(3)
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.Thompson F.C., Pape T., Evenhuis N.L. (2013) Systema Dipterorum, Version 1.5
3.Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Gary Mullen, Lance Durden. 2002. Academic Press.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 8 November, 2005 - 2:46pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Ron M., v belov, KenW
Last updated 15 February, 2021 - 3:29pm

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