CALLIPHORIDAE
(blowflies, bluebottles, green bottles and woodlouse-flies)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Bellardia emerald-bottles	Genus	1 subtaxa	25 images
Calliphora true bluebottles	Genus	2 subtaxa	73 images	2 ident. refs
Cynomya mortuorum Dead Dog Fly, Yellow-faced Blowfly	Species		22 images	1 ident. refs
Lucilia true greenbottles	Genus	2 subtaxa	78 images	1 ident. refs
Paykullia maculata Picture-winged Woodlouse-fly	Species		13 images
Protocalliphora azurea Bird Blowfly	Species		15 images
Rhinophora lepida Pouting Woodlouse-fly	Species		13 images
Stomorhina lunata Locust Blowfly	Species		9 images
Calliphoridae (unidentified) Unidentified Blow-flies, Blue-bottles, Green Bottles	Unidentified		5 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	CALLIPHORIDAE (blowflies, bluebottles, green bottles and woodlouse-flies)
Superfamily	OESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Calyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

CALLIPHORIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Erzinçlioglu, Z.	1996	Blowflies	Naturalist's Handbooks, 23, 71pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
	Falk, S.	2016	British blowflies (Calliphoridae) and woodlouse flies (Rhinophoridae)
	Falk, S.		Diptera (flies)	www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629586945825/
	Falk, S.J.		* Test key to British Calliphoridae *(Superseded)
	Rognes, K.	1991	The Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark	Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 24, 272pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.
	van Emden, F.I.,	1954	* Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae *(Superseded)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol X. Part 4(a), 133pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Forensic Species
	Szpila, K.	2015	Key for identification of European and Mediterranean blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of forensic importance: adult flies	http://www.eafe.org/Members_area_files/Szpila_key_blowflies_imago.pdf

CALLIPHORIDAE (blowflies, bluebottles, green bottles and woodlouse-flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

OESTROIDEA
(blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CALLIPHORIDAE (blowflies, bluebottles, green bottles and woodlouse-flies)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 44 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CALLIPHORIDAE (blowflies, bluebottles, green bottles and woodlouse-flies)

Remove abdomen. Boil in 10% KOH for a few minutes and leave to cool.

Wash in water. Gently press with needle to remove macerated contents. Use forceps to remove trachea. Split abdomen with fine forceps introduced through the hole at the thorax junction. Wash in water and remove any more trachea.

Push the ovipositor out by inserting one point of the forceps, and break it free of the abdomen. Remove the abdomen. Cut along the interstitial membrane with a scalpel by running the blade against the forceps. Again, remove trachea.

Wash in water and open out in a thin film of water with forceps and a mounted needle. Remove excess water and add a drop of lactophenol. Chase air bubbles away with a needle and manipulate to mix lactophenol with remaining water. Check ovipositor is fully splayed out. Add a coverslip and examine. (Warm to remove any remaining air bubbles if necessary.)

(See photos of Luculia caesar ovipositor - 3 June 11)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

CALLIPHORIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Forensic Species

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