''Calliphora augur'', known as the lesser brown blowfly or bluebodied blowfly, is a species of
blow-fly that is native to
Australia. It is similar to the
eastern goldenhaired blowfly (common brown blowfly) but slightly smaller, and its abdomen has a central dark blue patch.
It is a common visitor to houses and is also noted as a perpetrator of
flystrike on
sheep
Sheep or domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') are domesticated, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Although the term ''sheep'' can apply to other species in the genus ''Ovis'', in everyday usage it almost always refers to domesticated sh ...
. It lays living
maggot
A maggot is the larva of a fly (order Diptera); it is applied in particular to the larvae of Brachycera flies, such as houseflies, cheese flies, and blowflies, rather than larvae of the Nematocera, such as mosquitoes and crane flies.
E ...
s (Viviparous), unlike most blow-fly species which lay eggs.
References
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Department of Primary Industries : Sheep blowflies of Victoria
Calliphoridae
Insects of Australia
Insects described in 1775
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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