Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
(Common Bluebottle)

Calliphora vicina (Common Bluebottle) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Calliphora vicina (Common Bluebottle) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesCalliphora vicina (Common Bluebottle)
GenusCalliphora (true bluebottles)
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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Calliphora vicina (Common Bluebottle)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Zumpt, F. & Heinz, H.J. 1949 Studies in the sexual armature of Diptera - II A contribution to the study of the morphology and homology of the male terminalia of Calliphora and Sarcophaga (Dipt., Calliphoridae) Ent. Mon. Mag. 52.

Calliphora vicina (Common Bluebottle) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Gorb, S.N. 1998 The design of the fly adhesive pad: distal tenent setae are adapted to the delivery of an adhesive secretion Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Vol 265: 747-752.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Calliphora vicina (Common Bluebottle):

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