Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
(true greenbottles)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Lucilia caesar
Common Greenbottle
Male (Click to open)
 		Species 61 images 1 ident. refs
Lucilia sericata
Sheep-strike Greenbottle, Sheep-maggot Fly
Female (Click to open)
 		Species 17 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusLucilia (true greenbottles)
FamilyCALLIPHORIDAE (blowflies, bluebottles, green bottles and woodlouse-flies)
SuperfamilyOESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)
InfraorderSchizophora - Calyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Lucilia (true greenbottles) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Lucilia (true greenbottles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 16 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Lucilia (true greenbottles)
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