Calliphora augur

Taxobox
name = "Calliphora augur"
status =

---

image_width = 240px
image_caption = female
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosubsectio = Calyptratae
superfamilia = Oestroidea
familia = Calliphoridae
subfamilia = Calliphorinae
genus = "Calliphora"
species = "C. augur"
binomial = "Calliphora augur"
binomial_authority = Fabricius, 1775

"Calliphora augur", known as the lesser brown blowfly or bluebodied blowfly, is a species of blow-fly that is native to Australia. It is similar to the eastern goldenhaired blowfly (common brown blowfly) but slightly smaller, and its abdomen has a central dark blue patch.

It is a common visitor to houses and is also noted as a perpetrator of flystrike on sheep. It lays living maggots, unlike most blow-fly species which lay eggs.

References

* [http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/dpi/nreninf.nsf/LinkView/185D6A4F9AC329C4CA256BCF000BBE895FA46B2D7E0F5E9E4A256DEA00274704 Department of Primary Industries : Sheep blowflies of Victoria]
* [http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/name_s/b_770.htm CSIRO: "Calliphora augur" (Fabricius)]