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Species Bellardia bayeri

blue bottle fly - Bellardia bayeri - male

emerald bottle - Bellardia bayeri - female

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 Bellardia

Species bayeri (Bellardia bayeri)

Explanation of Names

Bellardia bayeri (Jacentkovsky 1937)

Identification

Apical section of M (after bend) straight. Abdomen blueish to greenish. Calypters dark(1)

Mid tibiae usually with 1 distinct medial anterodorsal seta, but sometimes with 1-2 shorter setae around.

Pruinescence on abdomen supposed to be thinner than in B. vulgaris.

Range

native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic, adventive in NA (recorded from New Hampshire and Massachusetts)(1)(2)

Life Cycle

Viviparous

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.	de Jong Y.S.D.M. et al. (2014) Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4034.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 13 August, 2013 - 12:19am
Additional contributions by v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 17 May, 2023 - 11:40am

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