Species Bellardia vulgaris

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Just another Blow Fly... - Bellardia vulgaris - male

7 mm blow fly - Bellardia vulgaris - female

mating blowfly - Bellardia vulgaris - male

introduced blow fly - Bellardia vulgaris - 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 Bellardia

Species vulgaris (Bellardia vulgaris)

Explanation of Names

Bellardia vulgaris (Robineau-Desvoidy 1830)

Identification

genitalia illustrated (Rognes 1991) • habitus photo

Range

native to, and widespread across Europe, adventive in NA (ne US)(1)(2)

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 Ben Coulter on 12 November, 2013 - 10:06am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 25 September, 2023 - 7:57am

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