Cochliomyia Townsend 1915

Stotelmyre, Lyle Magee, 2024, Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of the Baja California Peninsula, Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 308-330 : 316

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scientific name	Cochliomyia Townsend 1915
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Genus Cochliomyia Townsend 1915 View in CoL

Callitroga Brauer, 1883: 74 . Type species: Calliphora anthropophaga Conil, 1878 View in CoL (in Lesbini et al. 1878): 71, by original designation and monotypy = Cochliomyia hominivorax ( Coquerel, 1858) View in CoL : 173; published in synonymy, not subsequently treated as valid before 1961.

Callitroga Hall 1948: 120 . Type species: Musca macellaria Fabricius, 1775: 776 [= Cochliomyia macellaria ( Fabricius, 1775) View in CoL ], by original designation. Junior synonym.

Remarks: Cochliomyia are known as New World Screwworm Flies. One species. Known genus distribution: Neotropical.

References

Brauer, F. (1883) Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. III. [The Diptera of the Imperial Museum in Vienna III.] Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, 47, 1 - 100.

Coquerel, C. (1858) Note sur les larves appartenant a une espece nouvelle de Diptere (Lucilia hominivorax) developpees dans les sinus frontaux de l'homme a Cayenne. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, Series 3, 6, 171 - 176.

Fabricius, J. C. (1775) Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorvm classes, ordines, genera, species adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibvs, observationibvs. Kortii, Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [Flensburg and Leipzig], 832 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 36510

Hall, D. G. (1948) The Blowflies of North America. Thomas Say Foundation, Baltimore, 477 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.4182 / SFRR 4922

Lesbini, C., Weyenbergh, C. H. & Conil, P. A. (1878) Etudes sur la Myiasis. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Cordoba, 3 (2), 41 - 98.