Lucilia caesar (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Common Greenbottle)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesLucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle)
GenusLucilia (true greenbottles)
FamilyCALLIPHORIDAE (blowflies, bluebottles, green bottles and woodlouse-flies)
SuperfamilyOESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)
InfraorderSchizophora - Calyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle) :
1: Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle)
9 Aug 2011 OSGR: SU56 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
Male, visiting Hemp Agrimony
Image 1: Male - abdomen and scutellum - dorsal view - highly enlargedImage 2: Male - abdomen - ventral view - magnifiedImage 3: Male - dorsal view - close-up - highly enlargedImage 4: Male - dorsal view - enlarged - white backgroundImage 5: Male - head and forepart of thorax - antero-dorsal view - magnifiedImage 6: Male - head and thorax - dorsal view - highly enlargedImage 7: Male - head - anterior view - close-up - magnifiedImage 8: Male - head - anterior view - magnifiedImage 9: Male - head - antero-dorsal view - magnifiedImage 10: Male - head - dorsal view - magnifiedImage 11: Male - head - lateral view - magnifiedImage 12: Male - lateral view - highly enlarged - white backgroundImage 13: Male - terminalia - dorsal view - magnifiedImage 14: Male - terminalia - dorsal view - magnified (2)Image 15: Male - terminalia - lateral view - magnifiedImage 16: Male - terminalia - ventral view - magnifiedImage 17: Male - thorax - lateral view - magnifiedImage 18: Male - ventral view - highly enlarged - white backgroundImage 19: Wing base - dorsal view - magnifiedImage 20: Wing base - ventral view - magnifiedImage 21: Wing base - ventral view - setulae on subcostal sclerite indicatedImage 22: Wing - dorsal view - highly enlarged
2: Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle)
3 Jun 2011 OSGR: SY78 50° 40’ N, 2° 20’ W Vice County: Dorset (VC 9) England
female, visiting Hogweed
Image 1: Female - abdomen - ventral view - enlarged - grey backgroundImage 2: Female - dorsal view - enlarged - grey backgroundImage 3: Female - dorsum - close-up - highly enlarged - grey backgroundImage 4: Female - face and prosternum - ventral view - magnified - grey backgroundImage 5: Female - head - anterior view - highly enlarged - grey backgroundImage 6: Female - head - antero-dorsal view - highly enlarged - grey backgroundImage 7: Female - head - dorsal view - magnified - grey backgroundImage 8: Female - head - lateral view - magnified - grey backgroundImage 9: Female - thorax - lateral view - magnified - grey backgroundImage 10: Female - thorax - ventro-lateral view - close-up - labelled - magnified - white backgroundImage 11: Female - thorax - ventro-lateral view - close-up - magnified - white backgroundImage 12: Female - thorax - ventro-lateral view - close-up - magnified - white background (2)Image 13: Female - thorax - ventro-lateral view - close-up - magnified - white background (3)Image 14: Female - ventral view - enlarged - grey backgroundImage 15: Female - visiting Hogweed - dorsal view - enlargedImage 16: Female - visiting Hogweed - dorsal view - enlarged (2)Image 17: Female - visiting Hogweed - postero-dorsal view - enlargedImage 18: Ovipositor - first two segments - lateral view - close-up - magnifiedImage 19: Ovipositor - lateral view - magnifiedImage 20: Ovipositor prep - microscope low magnificationImage 21: Wing base - dorsal view - close-up - labelled - magnified - pale backgroundImage 22: Wing base - dorsal view - close-up - magnified - pale backgroundImage 23: Wing base - dorsal view - magnified - white backgroundImage 24: Wing base - ventral view - close-up - labelled - magnified - pale backgroundImage 25: Wing base - ventral view - close-up - magnified - pale backgroundImage 26: Wing base - ventral view - magnified - pale backgroundImage 27: Wing - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 28: Wing - highly enlarged - pale background (2)Image 29: Wing - ventral view - highly enlarged - pale backgroundImage 30: Ovipositor prep - sternite 6 - magnified - white backgroundImage 31: Ovipositor prep - sternite and tergite 7 - magnified - white backgroundImage 32: Ovipositor prep - sternite and tergite 8 - microscope low magnification - white backgroundImage 33: Ovipositor prep - sternites and tergites 8 & 9 - magnified - white backgroundImage 34: Ovipositor prep - tergite 1 - magnified - white backgroundImage 35: Ovipositor - S6-S7 microtrichia with tracheal tube - magnifiedImage 36: Ovipositor - sternite 1 - microtrichiae near tip - magnifiedImage 37: Ovipositor - T6-T7 microtrichia - magnifiedImage 38: Ovipositor - T7-T8 microtrichia - magnifiedImage 39: Ovipositor - T8 surface ornament - magnified

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource

First Instar Larva

Szpila, K., Pape, T., Hall, M.J.R. & Madra, A. 2014 Morphology and identification of first instars of European and Mediterranean blowflies of forensic importance. Part III: Calliphorinae Medical and Veterinary Entomology Vol 28: 133-142.

Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle)
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