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Calliphoridae Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889

Štěpán Kubík1 & Ivan Országh2

1 Czech University of Agriculture, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Zoology and Fishery, CZ-165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic, kubik@af.czu.cz
2 Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Zoology,  Mlynská dolina, SK-842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia, orszaghova@fns.uniba.sk

Adults are medium-sized to large robust flies with a body length from about 4.0 to 16.0 mm. Body colour variable, but most Central European species either black or metallic green to blue, often with silvery to yellowish microtomentum. Adult blow flies are important from a hygienic point-of-view. Their habit of visiting faeces, fresh or cooked meat, fish, dairy products, and wounds, make many species potential vectors of bacteria, viruses, protozoans and helminths. Several species have synanthropic tendencies. The larvae of Protocalliphora spp. feed on the blood of nestling birds. The known larvae of the Melanomyinae are parasitoids or predators upon living snails. Species of the genera Bellardia, Onesia and Pollenia are associated with earthworms. A few Palaearctic species are obligate producers of myiasis in various animals.

Altogether 113 species of the family Calliphoridae are known to occur in Europe (Rognes 2007), of which 66 are listed in this checklist; 58 are recorded from the Czech Republic (47 in Bohemia, 57 in Moravia), and 62 from Slovakia. The identification of many Central European species is possible using the detailed monograph treating the Scandinavian fauna (Rognes 1991). The nomenclature follows the Fauna Europaea (Rognes 2007).

This paper was partly supported by IRP MSM 6046070901 (Ministry of education, youth and sports).

References

[1] Čepelák J. & Čepelák S. 1986: Súhrn výsledkov výskumu dvojkrídlovcov (Diptera) z oblasti Vysokých Tatier. Zborník prác o Tatranskom národnom parku 27: 59-81.

[2] Čepelák J. & Slamečková M. 1996: Pozoruhodné nálezy dvojkrídlovcov (Diptera, Brachycera) v Nízkych Tatrách. Acta Zootechnica Universitatis Agriculturae, Nitra 52: 135-140.

[3] Gregor F. 1986: Čeľaď: Calliphoridae, pp. 253-260, 405-407. In: Čepelák, J. (ed.): Diptera Slovenska II. (Cyclorrhapha). Veda, Vydavateľstvo SAV, Bratislava.

[4] Gregor F. 1987: Calliphoridae. In Ježek J. (ed.): Enumeratio insectorum Bohemoslovakiae. Check list of Czechoslovak insects II  (Diptera). Acta faunistica entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 18: 291-293.

[5] Jacentkovský D. 1941: Kuklice (Tachinoidea, Diptera) Moravy a Slezska. Die Raupenfliegen (Tachinoidea) Mährens und Schlesiens. Acta Societatis Scientarum Naturalium Moravicae 13 (4): 1-64.

[6] Országh I., Jánošková V. & Fedor P. 2009: Catalogue of blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Slovakia.Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava, 124 pp.

[7] Pape T., Kubík Š. & Barták M. 2001: Calliphoridae. In: Barták M. & Vaňhara J. (eds): Diptera in and Industrially Affected Region (North-Western Bohemia, Bílina and Duchcov Environs). Folia Facultatis Scientiarium Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 105: 479-484.

[8] Rognes K. 1987: The taxonomy of Pollenia rudis species-group in the Holarctic Region (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Systematic Entomology 12: 475-502.

[9] Rognes K. 1991: Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna entomologica Scandinavica 24: 1-272.

[10] Rognes K. 2007: Fauna Europaea: Calliphoridae In: Pape T. (ed.): Fauna Europaea: Diptera, Brachycera. Fauna Europaea version 1.3. <http://www.faunaeur.org>. Retrieved 01.09.2009.

[11] Thompson F.C. & Pont A.C. 1993: Systematic Database of Musca Names (Diptera). A catalog of names associated with the genus-group name Musca Linnaeus, with information on their classification, distribution, and documentation. Theses zoologicae, Koenigstein 20: 1-221.


CALLIPHORINAE
Bellardia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863
bayeri (Jacentkovský, 1937) CZ  ( M ) SK
obsoleta (Meigen, 1824) SK
pandia (Walker, 1849) CZ  (B M ) SK
polita (Mik, 1884) CZ  ( M )  SK in ECV1 erroneously omitted for SK [1] 
stricta (Villeneuve, 1926) CZ  (B M ) SK
vespillo (Fabricius, 1794) CZ  (B M ) SK in PCV2 erroneously omitted [4]
viarum (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) CZ  (B M ) SK
vulgaris (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)  CZ  (B M ) SK
Calliphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
loewi Enderlein, 1903 CZ  (B M ) SK
stelviana (Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891) CZ  (B ) SK
subalpina (Ringdahl, 1931) CZ  (B M ) SK in PCV2 erroneously omitted [4]
uralensis Villeneuve, 1922 CZ  (B M ) SK
vicina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 CZ  (B M ) SK
vomitoria (Linnaeus, 1758) CZ  (B M ) SK
Cynomya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
mortuorum (Linnaeus, 1761) CZ  (B M ) SK
Onesia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 
austriaca Villeneuve, 1920 CZ  (B M ) SK
canescens Villeneuve, 1926 SK
floralis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 CZ  (B M ) SK
kowarzi Villeneuve, 1920 CZ  ( M ) SK
zumpti Schumann, 1964 SK
CHRYSOMYINAE
Chrysomya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
albiceps (Wiedemann, 1819) CZ  ( M ) SK in PCV2 erroneously omitted [4]
Phormia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
regina (Meigen, 1826) CZ  (B M ) SK
Protocalliphora Hough, 1899
azurea (Fallén, 1817) CZ  (B M ) SK
falcozi Séguy, 1928 CZ  ( M ) SK
peusi Gregor & Povolný, 1959  CZ  (B M ) SK
rognesi Thompson et Pont, 1993 SK in PCV2 and ECV1 as P. chrysorrhoea (Meigen, 1826) [11]
Protophormia Townsend, 1908
terraenovae (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)  CZ  (B M ) SK
Trypocalliphora Peus, 1960 
braueri (Hendel, 1901) SK
HELICOBOSCINAE
Eurychaeta Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891
muscaria (Meigen, 1826) SK
palpalis (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)  CZ  (B M ) SK
LUCILIINAE
Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
ampullacea Villeneuve, 1922 CZ  (B M ) SK
bufonivora Moniez, 1876 CZ  (B M )
caesar (Linnaeus, 1758) CZ  (B M ) SK
illustris (Meigen, 1826) CZ  (B M ) SK
pilosiventris Kramer, 1910 CZ  (B M ) SK
regalis (Meigen, 1826) CZ  (B M ) SK
richardsi Collin, 1926 CZ  (B M ) SK
sericata (Meigen, 1826) CZ  (B M ) SK
silvarum (Meigen, 1826) CZ  (B M ) SK
MELANOMYINAE
Angioneura Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1893
acerba (Meigen, 1838) CZ  (B M )
cyrtoneurina (Zetterstedt, 1859) CZ  ( M )
fimbriata (Meigen, 1826) CZ  (B M ) SK  in ECV1 erroneously omitted for SK [2] 
Eggisops Rondani, 1862
pecchiolii Rondani, 1862 CZ  ( M ) SK
Melanomya Rondani, 1856
nana (Meigen, 1826) CZ  (B M ) SK
Melinda Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
gentilis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 CZ  (B M ) SK
viridicyanea (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)  CZ  (B M ) SK
POLLENIINAE
Morinia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
doronici (Scopoli, 1763) CZ  (B M ) SK in PCV2 and  ECV1 as M. melanoptera (Fallén, 1817) [11]
Pollenia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
amentaria (Scopoli, 1763) CZ  (B M ) SK
angustigena Wainwright, 1940 CZ  (B M ) in [10] without published record from SK
atramentaria (Meigen, 1826) CZ  (B M ) SK
dasypoda Portschinsky, 1881 CZ  (B M ) SK
fulvipalpis Macquart, 1835  SK
griseotometosa (Jacentkovský, 1944)  CZ  (B M ) SK
hungarica Rognes, 1987 CZ  (B M )  SK 
labialis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 CZ  (B M ) SK
mayeri Jacentkovský, 1941 CZ  (B M ) SK
moravica (Jacentkovský, 1941) CZ  (B M ) SK in PCV2 erroneously omitted [5]
pediculata Macquart, 1834 CZ  (B M ) SK
ponti Rognes, 1991 SK
rudis (Fabricius, 1794) CZ  (B M ) SK
similis (Jacentkovský, 1941) CZ  (B M )  SK in PCV2 and ECV1 erroneously omitted for SK [3] 
tenuiforceps Séguy, 1928 CZ  ( M ) SK
vagabunda (Meigen, 1826) CZ  (B M ) SK
vera Jacentkovský, 1936 CZ  ( M ) SK
viatica Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 CZ  ( M ) SK
RHINIINAE
Stomorhina Rondani, 1861
lunata (Fabricius, 1805) CZ  ( M ) SK


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