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Calliphora (blue bottles)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #macrophotos #refs
Species Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (a blue bottle) 17 10 1

Suggested Literature

Calliphora may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CALYPTRATA
(calypterate flies)
CALLIPHORIDAE
(blow-flies, blue-bottles, green bottles)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Calliphora is associated with:

Photos larva Chordata - vertebrates larva feeds on dead dead matter van Emden, F.I., 1954
Photos larva Chordata - vertebrates larva feeds on dead decaying matter van Emden, F.I., 1954
Photos larva Chordata - vertebrates larva parasitises Minor van Emden, F.I., 1954

There may be more taxa associated with Calliphora listed at higher taxonomic level

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CYCLORRHAPHA
(a suborder of flies)

Associated with Calliphora:

adult adult may be infected by Entomophthora vomitoriae - an entomophagous fungus (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae) Waterhouse, G.M. & Brady, B.L., 1982

Calliphora may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CALLIPHORIDAE
(blow-flies, blue-bottles, green bottles)

References

van Emden, F.I., 1954 Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae
Waterhouse, G.M. & Brady, B.L., 1982 Key to the Species of Entomophthora sensu lato

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