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Australian distribution

Taxonomy

Family: Calliphoridae

Subfamily: Chrysomyinae

Genus: Chrysomya Robineau Desvoidy 1830

Species: incisuralis (Macquart 1851)

 

The third-instar larva was described by Erzinçlioglu (1984) and Kitching and Voeten (1977).

Biology

This species has been reared from meat in the laboratory and pig carcasses in the field (A. McDowall, pers. comm.), as well as from human corpses in Brisbane.

Distribution

Calliphora incisuralis is locally common in New South Wales and Queensland, but uncommon in South Australia and Victoria.

Relevant Literature

Archer, M.S. and Wallman, J F. (2002) A new distribution record from Victoria for the blowfly, Chrysomya incisuralis (Maquart) (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Procceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 114, 59-60.

Erzinçlioglu, Y.Z. (1984) Studies on the morphology and taxonomy of the immature stages of Calliphoridae, with analysis of phylogenetic relationships within the family, and between it and other groups in the Cyclorrhapha (Diptera). Ph.D., University of Durham.

Kitching, R.L. (1976) The immature stages of the Old-World screw-worm fly, Chrysoma bezziana Villeneuve, with comparative notes on other Australasian species of Chrysoma (Diptera, Calliphoridae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 66, 195-203.

Kitching, R L. and Voeten, R. (1977) The larvae of Chrysomya incisuralis (Macquart) and Ch. (Eucompsomyia) semimetallica (Malloch) (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 16, 185-190.