Family Calliphoridae
This page contains pictures and information about Yellow Golden
Blowflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Male, body length 10mm
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- Blue Golden Blowflies are dusty metallic blue
in colours, with honey-yellow on body sides. Top side of thorax, scutellum and
abdomen are metallic blue. Abdomen segments have the tessellated
markings. Humeri (shoulder near wing base) in blue. Legs with coax and front femur
in blue and tibia in honey-yellow, tarsus in black
colours.
The face is whitish-blue.
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- Female
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Male
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- Photos were taken in Anstead Forest on Aug and
Sept 2012.
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- Reference:
- 1. The tribe Calliphorini from Australian and Oriental regions, II. Calliphora-group (Diptera: Calliphoridae) -
Kurahashi, H 1971, Pacific Insects 13: 141-204 [195].
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