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License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
Rating | 2.5 |
Vetted | Trusted |
Description | This is the small brown blowfly that's the common fly dead at the base of our house windows at the moment. I keyed it out using the 1954 key I found at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_82/rsnz_82_03_008400.html. It mentions two golden brown blowfly species in New Zealand, Calliphora rufipesCalliphora hilli and Calliphora stygia, which are separated by their number of pairs of presutural aurostichal bristles. I had to look that up on Google, then counted two pairs (annotated on one of my photos) which match Calliphora rufipesCalliphora hilli. Calliphora stygia has three pairs. |
Original URL | http://static.inaturalist.org/photos/1204158/original.?1413271931 |
creator | Jon Sullivan |
publisher | inaturalist |
provider | iNaturalist.org |