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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.