Bluebottle - Chrysomya rufifacies
Family Calliphoridae
This page contains pictures and information about Bluebottle Blowflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 8mm
- This Bluebottle fly is also known as Green Hairy Maggot Blowfly. They are carrion feeders. The are ecologically important as primary and also secondary coloniser of carrion. They are also important in forensic.
- Male Female
- The fly is medium in size with metallic green body, with a distinct blue hue when viewed under bright sunlit conditions. It has a silvery head and red eyes. It has the board and round abdomen.
- Their larvae are predaceous, feeding on the larvae of earlier-arriving flies. Females do not lay their eggs in a corpse until the body is partially decomposed and maggots are available as prey.
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- Bluebottle blowfly is commonly used as an indicator of the post-mortem interval (PMI). Carrion-breeding blowfly is important forensically because the development times of their larvae are the indicator for determining the minimum time since death.
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- They are common in Brisbane.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p781.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p375.
- 3. Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) - - Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO 2005
- 4. hairy maggot blow fly - by Jason H. Byrd, University of Florida, 1998
- 5. Hairy Maggot Blowfly - Diptera (flies) of Orange County, California, by Peter J. Bryant
- 6. On the Fly, The Interactive Atlas and Key to Australian Fly Families CD Rom - Hamilton, J. et al. 2006. Brisbane : CBIT & ABRS.
- 7. Sheep parasites Management of blowflies - Ken Wilson and Bob Armstrong, reviewed by Geoff Knights, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries.
- 8. Hairy maggot blowfly Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) - PaDIL.
- 9. GENUS CHRYSOMYA IN NEW GUINEA (Diptera : Calliphoridae) - By Maurice T. James, Pacific Insects 13 (2): 361-369, 1971.
- 10. Incorrect report of cryptic species within Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera : Calliphoridae) - B. D. Lessard, J. F. Wallman, M. Dowton, Invertebrate Systematics 23(6) 507–514.
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p781.
