Lucilia (fly)

For the plant genus, see Lucilia (plant).

Lucilia
Lucilia sericata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Calliphoridae
Subfamily: Luciliinae
Genus: Lucilia
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
Type species
Musca caesar
Linnaeus, 1758, des. Macquart, 1834
Species

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Synonyms
  • Phaenicia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863
  • Bufolucilia Townsend, 1919
  • Francilia Shannon, 1924
  • Caesariceps Rohdendorf, 1926
  • Dasylucilia Rohdendorf, 1926
  • Chaetophaenicia Enderlein, 1936
  • Acrophagella Ringdahl, 1942[2]

Lucilia is a genus of blow flies in the family Calliphoridae. Various species in this genus are commonly known as green bottle flies.

  1. ^ Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. ^ "PESI portal - Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830".