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Calliphora
| Calliphora | |
|---|---|
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| Calliphora vicina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Calliphoridae |
| Subfamily: | Calliphorinae |
| Tribe: | Calliphorini |
| Genus: | Calliphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1] |
| Type species | |
| Musca vomitoria | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Calliphora is a genus of blow flies, also known as bottle flies, found in most parts of the world, with the highest diversity in Australia.[3] The most widespread species in North America area Calliphora livida, C. vicina, and C. vomitoria.[3]
Calliphora, meaning "bearer of beauty", was first formally named in 1830 by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy.[3] It is the type genus of the family Calliphoridae.
- ^ Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ Schumann, H.; Ozerov, A. L. (1992). "Zum systematischen Status von Abago rohdendorfi Grunin, 1966 (Diptera, Calliphoridae)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 39 (4–5): 403–408. doi:10.1002/mmnd.19920390416.
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