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Calliphora loewi
Plate 1 of 3. (с) Вотинцевы Елена и Сергей, некоторые права защищены (CC BY-NC), загрузил Вотинцевы Елена и Сергей · via iNaturalist

Calliphora loewi

Calliphora loewi is part of the family Calliphoridae, which consisted of bottle flies and blowflies, and in the genus Calliphora, blue bottle flies. The genus can be deceiving since C. loewi is not blue. Though this species is rare, it can play an important part in forensic entomology, spreading disease, and decomposing carrion. The life cycle of C. loewi is similar to the life cycle of the genus Calliphora. Since this species is rare there has...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1638897.