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family Calliphoridae - blowflies

arthropod family - any of the arthropods

Diptera, order Diptera - a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies

Calliphora, genus Calliphora - type genus of the Calliphoridae: blowflies

genus Lucilia, Lucilia - greenbottle flies

genus Sarcophaga, Sarcophaga - flesh flies

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Dorsal view of the "Primary screwworm" fly, Cochliomyia hominivorax, a member of the family Calliphoridae. Image: Public Health Image Library.

Cochliomyia hominivorax [kok"le-o-mi'ya]

Three fly species belonging to family Calliphoridae were identified out of three species, two belonged to subfamily Calliphorinae C.

Determination of Early Colonizer Urban Blowfly Species Using Small Bait Traps on a University Campus

Family Calliphoridae. Museo de Zoologia, Universidad de Sao Paulo.

New records of blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from Amazonian Venezuela

In the order Diptera, the family Calliphoridae is highlighted for the ability that its component species have to colonize new environments (Greenberg and Szyska, 1984).

Edge effects on the blowfly fauna (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of the Tijuca National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/Efeitos de borda sobre a fauna de califorideos (Diptera, Calliphoridae) no Parque Nacional da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Third stage larvae from the family Calliphoridae are characterised as being acephale, having a spiracle-like cephalopharyngeal skeleton; these parts are sclerotised and even though they have a thin cuticle, they are not strongly so [9].

Evaluating the effect of sarconesiopsis magellanica (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae-derived haemolymph and fat body extracts on chronic wounds in diabetic rabbits

In Colombia, there are only two studies on synanthropy, one for the family Calliphoridae (Montoya et al.

Sinantropia de Sarcophagidae (Diptera) en La Pintada, Antioquia-Colombia

Abstract: Recognizing the importance of the correct identification of insects associated with deceased bodies for an effective estimation of time of death, and taking into account the incidence of flies of the family Calliphoridae in corpses and the difficulty of their taxonomic determination, we evaluated the usefulness of COI mitochondrial gene sequences as a molecular diagnostic tool for identifying forensically important calliphorids in Colombia.

Identificacion molecular de califoridos (Diptera: Calliphoridae) de importancia forense en Colombia.

For example, fossilized Diptera of the family Calliphoridae have been found in association with Pleistocene mammals from Argentina, and represent an example of an ancient cadaveric decay assemblage (Petrulevicius, 2001).

An ancient assemblage of scavenger insects in patagonia (Argentina)