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

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
CALLIPHORIDAE
blowflies, bluebottles, green bottles and woodlouse-flies
Male (Click to open)
 		Family 11 subtaxa 253 images 11 ident. refs
OESTRIDAE
nostril and bot flies
Family 1 ident. refs
POLLENIIDAE
a family of flies
Female (Click to open)
 		Family 5 subtaxa 109 images
SARCOPHAGIDAE
flesh flies
Male (Click to open)
 		Family 11 subtaxa 236 images 14 ident. refs
TACHINIDAE
parasitoid flies
(Click to open)Female (Click to open)
 		Family 59 subtaxa 793 images 20 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Clemons, L. 2010 Progress with recording the woodlouse-flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae) of Watsonian Kent Newsletter of The Kent Field Club No. 72: 4-16.
Falk, S. 2016 British blowflies (Calliphoridae) and woodlouse flies (Rhinophoridae)
Falk, S. *** Test key to British Rhinophoridae ***(Superseded)
Falk, S. Diptera (flies) www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629586945825/
Herting, B. 1961 Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region: vol 216 64e Rhinophorinae Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region - Flies of the Palaearctic (Lindner, E. ed), 41pp, Schweizerbart and Borntraeger science publishers
van Emden, F.I., 1954 Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol X. Part 4(a), 133pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Generic Key

Pape, T. 1998 Manual of Palaearctic Diptera Vol 3 - Rhinophoridae Pape, T., 1998. Manual of Palaearctic Diptera Vol 3 - Rhinophoridae, 11pp, Palaearctic Diptera Vol 3: Higher Brachycera

OESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for OESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1,089 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for OESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)

A small family of small slender black bristly flies. The larvae are mostly parasitoids of woodlice.

Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)