Lesser Brown Blowfly
Female, profile
Golden Blowfly
Male, dorsal
| Lesser Brown Blowfly Female, profile | | Golden Blowfly Male, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | ||||
| Family: | Blow Fly (Calliphoridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Golden Blowfly (Calliphora hilli) | ||||
| This Photo: | Female | ||||
| Other name: | Hill's Brown Blowfly | ||||
Thank you Wild Wind 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 Thanks to Insects of Tasmania web site, C. hilli has 2 presutural acrostichal bristle pairs, where as C. stygia has 3. Tony Daley, from Insects of Tasmania, said of a different specimen to ours "With the all dark legs and typical golden tessellated abdomen it will be one of the more obscure species." Similar Species: Golden Blowfly (Calliphora stygia) | |||||
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