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Species Calliphora vomitoria - Blue Bottle Fly

Pollen covered fly - Calliphora vomitoria Fly ZH3Z8830 - Calliphora vomitoria - female Calliphora vomitoria - female large fly - Calliphora vomitoria - female Calliphora vomitoria - female Blow Fly - - Calliphora vomitoria Yellow-chinned fly - Calliphora vomitoria large blue bottle fly - Calliphora vomitoria - male
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 Calliphorinae
Genus Calliphora
Species vomitoria (Blue Bottle Fly)
Other Common Names
Bottlebee
Explanation of Names
Calliphora vomitoria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Size
10–14 mm
Identification
Calliphora vicina and Calliphora vomitoria may be distinguished from each other by the presence of yellow-orange jowls with black hair in C. vicina and black jowls with predominantly reddish hair in C. vomitoria. (1)
Range
Throughout NA and Eurasia(2)(3)
Internet References
Species page @ Calliphoridae of North America. (4)
Works Cited
1.Veterinary Entomology: Arthropod Ecoparasites of Veterinary Importance
Richard Wall and David Shearer. 1997. Springer.
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.
3.Thompson F.C., Pape T., Evenhuis N.L. (2013) Systema Dipterorum, Version 1.5
4.Blow flies of North America: Keys to the subfamilies and genera of Calliphoridae, and to the species of the subfamilies...
Jones N., Whitworth T., Marshall S.A. 2019. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 39: 1-191.
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 24 May, 2006 - 3:39pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, Ted Kropiewnicki, v belov
Last updated 25 October, 2021 - 12:22pm

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