Lucilia caesar (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Common Greenbottle)

Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesLucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle)
GenusLucilia (true greenbottles)
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 Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle)

Identification Works

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First Instar Larva

Szpila, K., Pape, T., Hall, M.J.R. & Madra, A. 2014 Morphology and identification of first instars of European and Mediterranean blowflies of forensic importance. Part III: Calliphorinae Medical and Veterinary Entomology Vol 28: 133-142.

Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 61 images of Lucilia caesar (Common Greenbottle)
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