Directory of Calliphoridae Resources

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Family of flies with a metallic sheen on the body, the blowflies, greenbottles or bluebottles.

Resources in This Category

• Album: Calliphoridae

  http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?album_id=6
  Photographs of many flies in this family.

• Amenia imperialis: Snail Parasite Blowfly

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Snail-Parasite-Blowfly/Amenia/imperialis.html
  Description, other information and several photographs.

• Amenia sp: Blowfly

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Blowfly/Amenia/unknown%20species.html
  Description, other information and several photographs.

• Blow-fly

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliphoridae
  Information from Wikipedia on the classification and biology of these insects that live on carrion, with photographs of several species.

• Chrysomya rufifacies: Hairy Maggot Blow Fly

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/livestock/hairy_maggot_blow_fly.htm
  Photographs and a description of this species, its distribution, life cycle and importance.

• Chrysomya spp.

  http://www.icb.usp.br/~marcelcp/Chrysomya.htm
  Several photographs of green blowflies and their larvae. Click to enlarge.

• Cluster Flies

  http://wiki.bugwood.org/HPIPM:Cluster_Flies
  Photographs, description, life history and habits of species of Pollenia.

• Cochliomyia hominivorax

  http://www.icb.usp.br/~marcelcp/Cochliomyia.htm
  Several photographs of the New World screwworm fly and its larvae. Click to enlarge.

• Cochliomyia macellaria: Secondary Screwworm

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/livestock/secondary_screwworm.htm
  Photographs and a description of this blowfly, its distribution, life cycle and importance.

• Family Calliphoridae

  http://bugguide.net/node/view/7175/bgpage
  Photographs of flies in this family found in North America, provided by BugGuide.

• Lucilia sericata

  http://www.icb.usp.br/~marcelcp/lucilia.htm
  Photograph of the greenbottle. Click to enlarge.

• Metallea sp

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Blowfly/Metallea/sp.html
  Photograph and information on this blowfly.

• Oriental Latrine Fly (Chrysomya megacephala)

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Oriental-Latrine-Fly/Chrysomya/megacephala.html
  Photograph and information on this species.

• The Blow Fly in 3D

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artfly/blow.html
  A microscopic survey by Wim van Egmond of this insect, with images of its head, eyes, feet, mouth, antennae, wings and breathing apparatus.

 

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