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Family Calliphoridae - Blow Flies


Biodiversity of Forensically Relevant Blowflies (Diptera:Calliphoridae) at the Anthropology Research Facility in Knoxville...
By Jeong, Y.; Weidner, L.M.;Pergande, S.; Gemmellaro, D.;Jennings, D.E.; Hans, K.R.
Insects, 2022
Full title is cut off above. Full title: Biodiversity of Forensically Relevant Blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) at the Anthropology Research Facility in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

This article includes information about a 14-month calliphorid survey at the Anthropology Research Facility, often referred to as the "body farm".

A new state record for Protophormia terraenovae in Tennessee is included, as well as a Tennessee record for Chrysomya megacephala that predates other records.

Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357989002_Biodiversity_of_Forensically_Relevant_Blowflies

Lucilia bufonivora, Not Lucilia silvarum (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Causes Myiasis in Anurans in North America With Notes About
By Whitworth, T. L., Bolek, M. G., & Arias-Robledo, G
Journal of Medical Entomology, 2020
Full Title: Lucilia bufonivora, Not Lucilia silvarum (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Causes Myiasis in Anurans in North America With Notes About Lucilia elongata and Lucilia thatuna

Molecular work reveals that the holarctic species Lucilia bufonivora, previously thought to be absent in North America, is to blame for cases of Anuran myiasis previously attributed to Lucilia silvarum or Lucilia elongata. Given this revelation, L. silvarum is now thought to be strictly saprophytic. Further research is needed to determine whether L. elongata is capable of Anuran myas

Blow flies of North America: Keys to the subfamilies and genera of Calliphoridae, and to the species of the subfamilies...
By Jones N., Whitworth T., Marshall S.A.
Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 39: 1-191, 2019
Full title: Blow flies of North America: Keys to the subfamilies and genera of Calliphoridae, and to the species of the subfamilies Calliphorinae, Luciliinae and Chrysomyinae

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Blow flies (Diptera;Calliphoridae) of eastern Canada with a key to Calliphoridae subfamilies and genera of eastern North America
By Marshall S.A., Whitworth T., Roscoe L.
Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 11: 1-93, 2011
Full title: Blow flies (Diptera; Calliphoridae) of eastern Canada with a key to Calliphoridae subfamilies and genera of eastern North America, and a key to the eastern Canadian species of Calliphorinae, Luciliinae and Chrysomyiinae
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Keys to the genera and species of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of America north of Mexico
By Whitworth T.L.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 108: 689–725, 2006
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(this important printed paper was added as a 'Links' entry some time ago)

A New Species of North American Protocalliphora Hough (Diptera: Calliphoridae) From Bird Nests
By T.L. Whitworth
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 2003
Species description for Protocalliphora occidentalis

Screwworm (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the United States: Response to and Elimination of the 2016–2017 Outbreak in Florida
By Steven R Skoda, Pamela L Phillips, John B Welch
Journal of Medical Entomology, Vol.XX, 2018
Full article (PDF)

Two New Species of North American Protocalliphora Hough (Diptera: Calliphoridae) From Bird Nests
By T.L. Whitworth
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 2002
Descriptions of Protocalliphora bennetti and Protocalliphora rugosa