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Calliphora vomitoria

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Description

Calliphora vomitoria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Musca vomitoria Linnaeus, 1758: 595. Type locality: Sweden (see Hall 1948: 313; Thompson & Pont 1994: 134).

Musca carnaria caerulea Degeer 1776: 57. Unavailable, polynomial suppressed by ICZN Opinion 2333 (2014).

Musca vomitoria minimus minimus Harris, 1780: 87. Junior synonym.

Musca carnivora Fabricius, 1794: 313. Junior synonym.

Musca obscoena Eschscholz, 1823: 113. Junior synonym.

Calliphora brunibarbis Robineau-Desviody 1830: 434. Junior synonym.

Calliphora fulvibarbis Robineau-Desviody 1830: 434. Junior synonym.

Calliphora affinis Macquart, 1835: 263. Junior synonym.

Calliphora rubrifrons Townsend 1908: 116. Junior synonym.

Calliphora pseudovomitoria Baranov, 1943: 62. Junior synonym.

Distribution: Cosmopolitan. Holarctic; South Africa; Hawaii. North America, from Greenland and Alaska south to Mexico.

Remarks: One of the largest Calliphoridae, with bright yellow setae on the back of the head. Occasionally recorded in wound myiasis (James 1955).

Material examined: BAJA CALIFORNIA:(literature review):Sierra Juarez, Sierra San Pedro Martir, Representative voucher specimens 2017–19 Ketzaly Munguia-Ortega (ECSR); BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR: None known.

Notes

Published as part of Stotelmyre, Lyle Magee, 2024, Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of the Baja California Peninsula, pp. 308-330 in Zootaxa 5468 (2) on pages 313-314, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/11615867

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039DA84EFFCAA87A39D9F996A8594648

Cites
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.3922738 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AB5E996B461B5D8C9003DE8D9589C1EB (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.2.4 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/11615867 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA4D036FFCFA87C394EFF8DAD5C4755 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/47EB7F11-8C60-4699-A6A4-849A3F7E45B7 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/039DA84EFFCAA87A39D9F996A8594648 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/233199229 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298491/taxon/039DA84EFFCAA87A39D9F996A8594648.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Calliphoridae
Genus
Calliphora
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
vomitoria
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Calliphora vomitoria (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Stotelmyre, 2024

References

  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, Stockholm, 823 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542
  • Hall, D. G. (1948) The Blowflies of North America. Thomas Say Foundation, Baltimore, 477 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.4182 / SFRR 4922
  • Fabricius, J. C. (1794) Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Tome IV. C. G. Proft, Hafniae [Copenhagen], 472 pp.
  • Macquart, P. J. M. (1835) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Tome Deuxieme. Roret, Paris, 703 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 14274
  • Townsend, C. H. T. (1908) The taxonomy of the muscoidean flies, including descriptions of new genera and species. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 51, 1 - 138.
  • Baranov, N. (1943) Calliphoridae Nezavisne Drzave Hrvatske [Calliphoridae of the independent state of Croatia]. Veterinarski Arhiv, 13, 45 - 87. [in Croatian, German abstract]
  • James, M. T. (1955) The Blowflies of California (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, 4 (1), 1 - 34.