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Family Calliphoridae
- This page contains pictures and information about Golden Blowflies
in subfamily Calliphorinae that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- All blowflies we found in this subfamily are in
Genus Calliphora. They are commonly known as Golden
Blowflies because have the abdomen in mottled gold colour with greyish-blue
thorax. Their legs are from yellowish-brown to dark brown, but never
black.
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- They are the carrion-breeding flies. Their
larvae feed on rotting fresh which accelerating the breakdown of carcases and the return of nutrients to the environment. However, they also adapted to breed on live sheep.
They are causing huge problem to Australian sheep industry.
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- Striped
Golden Blowfly
  - Calliphora sp., body length 10mm
- The fly is large in size with hairy body. It has
blue
thorax and golden brown abdomen. The fly is one of the earliest flies to visit
a corpse. Their larvae breed in carrion. Please check this page for more
information. Please click here for more
infromation.
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Blue-striped Golden Blowfly
  - Calliphora (Neocalliphora) stygia, body length 10mm
- This blowfly look similar to the species above
but with steel-blue area at the top of abdomen. Please also check this page
for more information.
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- Bluebodied
Golden Blowfly
 - Calliphora (Paracalliphora) augur, body length
8mm
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The fly is one of the earliest flies to visit
a corpse. Their larvae breed in carrion. Please check this page
for more information.
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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. On the Fly, The Interactive Atlas and Key to Australian Fly Families CD Rom - Hamilton, J. et al. 2006. Brisbane : CBIT &
ABRS.
- 4. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 5. Three new species of Australian 'golden blowflies' (Diptera : Calliphoridae : Calliphora), with a key to described species - KR Norris, 1994, Invertebrate Taxonomy 8(6) 1343 - 1366.
- 6. Sheep Blowflies of Victoria - Department of Primary Industries, Victoria,
Australia, 2010.
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