Golden Blowfly
Male, rear
Hairy-maggot Blowfly
Female, dorsal
| Golden Blowfly Male, rear | | Hairy-maggot Blowfly Female, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Blow Fly (Calliphoridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Hairy-maggot Blowfly (Chrysomya rufifacies) | ||||
| This Photo: | Female, dorsal | ||||
| Other name: | Blow Fly | ||||
Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli & Santiago (Sanpa) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere ~9mm long. This looks similar to Australian Sheep Blowfly (Lucilia cuprina), but the abdomen is larger & the black bands too thick. The wing venation also has Sc & R1 joined here, where as in L. cuprina they are quite separate. There are a surprisingly large number of these metallic green blowfly species. | |||||
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