Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Calliphoridae

Calliphora vomitoria (Linnaeus, 1758) Figs 2K, 3C

Material examined.

Madeira: Bica da Cana (1 female).

Remarks.

This common carrion-breeder is distributed throughout the Holarctic Region and is also present in the Oriental and Australasian regions ( Erzinçlioglu 1985). It is more rural in its distribution than Calliphora vicina (Smith 1986), frequenting natural and cultivated forests and showing a preference for more shaded habitats (Szpila et al. 2014). Calliphora vomitoria was found only in Madeira, in a pine plantation with low human disturbance.