BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
CALLIPHORIDAE (blow-flies, blue-bottles, green bottles)
| Genitalia preps - female | Remove abdomen. Boil in 10% KOH for a few minutes and leave to cool. Wash in water. Gently press with needle to remove macerated contents. Use forceps to remove trachea. Split abdomen with fine forceps introduced through the hole at the thorax junction. Wash in water and remove any more trachea. Push the ovipositor out by inserting one point of the forceps, and break it free of the abdomen. Remove the abdomen. Cut along the interstitial membrane with a scalpel by running the blade against the forceps. Again, remove trachea. Wash in water and open out in thin film of water with forceps and a mounted needle. Remove excess water and add a drop of lactophenol. Chase air bubbles away with a needle and manipulate to mix lactophenol with remaining water. Check ovipositor is fully splayed out. Add a coverslip and examine. (See photos of Luculia caesar ovipositor - 3 June 11) |
Sets of Photographs
These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.
| Taxon | Summary |  |
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Date | Vice-county | Country |
|---|
| Calliphoridae? | Imago | 5 | 5 | 27 Aug 2007 | Mid-west Yorkshire | England |
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
|
 |
 |
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|---|
| Genus | Bellardia (a genus of green bottles) | 1 | 23 | 2 | ||
| Genus | Calliphora (blue bottles) | 2 | ||||
| Species | Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (a blue bottle) | 18 | 30 | 1 | ||
| Species | Calliphora vomitoria (Linnaeus, 1758) (a blue bottle) | 26 | ||||
| Species | Cynomya mortuorum (Linnaeus) (Dead Dog Fly) | 7 | ||||
| Genus | Lucilia (a genus of green bottles and toadflies) | 1 | 4 | 65 | 10 | |
| Genus | Pollenia (cluster flies) | 4 | 27 | 79 | 2 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Erzinçlioglu, Z., 1996 | Blowflies |
| Falk, S.J., in prep. | Test key to British Calliphoridae |
| Rognes, K., 1991 | The Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark |
| van Emden, F.I., 1954 | Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae |
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 2 general literature references to CALLIPHORIDAE (blow-flies, blue-bottles, green bottles)
CALLIPHORIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:
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BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
ANIMALIA (animals) |
ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
INSECTA (insects) |
DIPTERA (two-winged flies) |
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 41 feeding and other relationships of CALLIPHORIDAE (blow-flies, blue-bottles, green bottles)
