Calliphora

Calliphora
Calliphora vicina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Calliphoridae
Subfamily: Calliphorinae
Tribe: Calliphorini
Genus: Calliphora
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Type species
Musca vomitoria
Synonyms
  • Abago Grunin, 1966
  • Acronesia Hall, 1948
  • Acrophaga Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1891

Calliphora is a genus of blow flies, also known as bottle flies, found in most parts of the world, with the highest diversity in Australia. The most widespread species in North America are Calliphora livida, C. vicina, and C. vomitoria.

Calliphora, meaning "bearer of beauty", was first formally named in 1830 by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy. It is the type genus of the family Calliphoridae.

Description

Adults of Calliphora have a grey or black thorax, the colour dulled by a heavy microtomentum. The abdomen is metallic blue (rarely purple or green) and sometimes also dulled by microtomentum. The suprasquamal ridge is bare or with inconspicuous fine setae only. The first flagellomere of the antenna is more than twice the length of the pedicel.

Larvae exoskeleton of Calliphora erythrocephala. The two posterior spiracles are to the right. Darker mouth hooks are to the left. The larva is stretched out on the microscope slide to about 16.5mm long,

Larvae have two posterior spiracles with a thick and unbroken peritreme, and (like other Calliphoridae larvae) containing straight slits. There is an accessory sclerite between the mouth hooks, though this is not visible in whole larvae.

Species

Species in the genus Calliphora include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Schumann, H.; Ozerov, A. L. (1992). "Zum systematischen Status von Abago rohdendorfi Grunin, 1966 (Diptera, Calliphoridae)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 39 (4–5): 403–408. doi:10.1002/mmnd.19920390416.
  3. 1 2 3 "Genus Calliphora - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  4. ↑ Jones, N.; Whitworth, T.; Marshall, S. A. (September 2019). "Blow flies of North America: Keys to the subfamilies and genera of Calliphoridae, and to the species of the subfamilies Calliphorinae, Luciliinae and Chrysomyinae". Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification. 39. doi:10.3752/cjai.2019.39.
  5. ↑ "Maggot Identification Key". shire.science.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  6. ↑ UniProt. "Calliphora". Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  7. ↑ Lowne, B.T. (1895). The Anatomy, Physiology, Morphology and Development of the Blow-fly:(Calliphora Erythrocephala.) A Study in the Comparative Anatomy and Morphology of Insects; with Plates and Illustrations Executed Directly from the Drawings of the Author (Vol. 2). Guilford: Billing and Sons, printers.
  8. ↑ Schiner, I.R. (1868). Diptera. vi In [Wullerstorf-Urbair, B. von (in charge)], Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara. Zool. 2(1)B. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn. pp. 388pp., 4 pls.