Chrysomyinae

Belongs within: Calliphoridae.

The Chrysomyinae are a group of blow flies characterised by the presence of a row of hairs along the posterior margin dorsally of the stem vein (the basal section of vein R), together with a haired posterior margin on the hind coxa. Though mostly scavengers, some are known to attack living animal tissue via wounds and the screwworm fly Cochliomyia hominivorax develops as an obligate parasite of large mammals.

Species of Cochliomyia may be distinguished from other members of the subfamily by the reduction of the palpus which is short, slender and filiform. The genus Chrysomya is characterised by a covering of dark appressed hair over the entirety of the dorsal surface of the lower calypter. Hemilucilia is a Neotropical genus with hairs along the entire length of the posterior margin of the hind coxa and two katepisternal bristles (Vargas & Wood 2010).

<==ChrysomyinaeVW10
    |--HemiluciliaVW10 [HemiluciliiniS87]
    |    |--H. fuscanipennisCH37
    |    |--H. segmentariaVW10
    |    `--H. semidiaphanaVW10
    `--ChrysomyiniVW10
         |--ChloroproctaS87
         |    |--C. idioidea [incl. C. fuscanipennis]VW10
         |    `--C. semiviridisCH37
         |--Paralucilia wheeleriS87, M90
         |--Cochliomyia [Cochliomyiini]S87
         |    |--C. aldrichiVW10
         |    |--C. americanaCH37 [=Callitroga americanaA71]
         |    |--C. fontanaiVW10
         |    |--C. hominivoraxVW10 [=Callitroga hominivoraxA71]
         |    |--C. laniariaCH37
         |    |--C. macellariaWT11
         |    `--C. minimaVW10
         `--Chrysomya Robineau-Desvoidy 1830 [incl. Cyaneosomyia Séguy 1928]F92
              |  i. s.: *C. (Chrysomya) regalis Robineau-Desvoidy 1830F92
              |         C. albicepsVW10 [incl. Lucilia testaceifacies Macquart 1851N96, Somomyia testaceifaciesN96]
              |         C. defixa Walker 1857 [=C. (Compsomyia) defixa]F92
              |         C. incisuralisW01
              |         C. latifronsW01
              |         C. mallochiCM70
              |         C. saffraneaW01
              |         C. varipesW01
              |--C. rufifacies (Macquart 1843)KP10
              `--+--C. putoriaKP10
                 `--C. (Compsomyia Rondani 1875)F92
                      |--C. (C.) bezziana Villeneuve 1914F92
                      |--C. (C.) chani Kurahashi 1979F92
                      |--C. (C.) phaonis (Séguy 1928) [=Cyaneosomyia phaonis]F92
                      |--C. (C.) megacephala (Fabricius 1784)F92, KP10, F92 [=Musca megacephalaF92]
                      |--C. (C.) pinguis (Walker 1858) [=Lucilia pinguis]F92
                      `--C. (C.) thanomthini Kurahashi & Tumrasvin 1971F92

Chrysomyinae incertae sedis:
  CompsomyiopsVW10
    |--C. callipesVW10
    |--C. fulvicruraKP10
    `--C. wheeleriCH37
  Ceylonomyia Fan 1965F92
    `--*C. nigripes (Aubertin 1932) [=Chrysomyia (Microcalliphora) nigripes]F92
  Achoetandrus Bezzi 1927F92
    |--*A. albiceps (Wd. 1819) [=Musca albiceps]F92
    |--A. rufifacies (Macq. 1843) [=Lucilia rufifacies; incl. Chrysomyia pingi Hsieh 1958]F92
    `--A. villeneuvii (Patton 1922) [=Chrysomyia villeneuvii]F92
  Microcalliphora Townsend 1916F92

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[A71] Askew, R. R. 1971. Parasitic Insects. Heinemann Educational Books: London.

[CM70] Colless, D. H., & D. K. McAlpine. 1970. Diptera (flies). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers pp. 656–740. Melbourne University Press.

[CH37] Cushing, E. C., & D. G. Hall. 1937. Some morphological differences between the screwworm fly Cochliomyia americana C. & P. and other closely allied or similar species in North America (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 39 (7): 195–200.

[F92] Fan Z. 1992. Key to the Common Flies of China 2^nd ed. Science Press: Beijing.

[KP10] Kutty, S. N., T. Pape, B. M. Wiegmann & R. Meier. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of the Calyptratae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) with an emphasis on the superfamily Oestroidea and the position of Mystacinobiidae and McAlpine’s fly. Systematic Entomology 35: 614–635.

[M90] McAlpine, J. F. 1990. Insecta: Diptera adults. In: Dindal, D. L. (ed.) Soil Biology Guide pp. 1211–1252. John Wiley & Sones: New York.

[N96] Norris, K. R. 1996. Lectotype designation and characterisation of the Australian blowflies Calliphora pubescens Macquart and Calliphora testaceifacies Macquart (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 35: 49–59.

[S87] Shewell, G. E. 1987. Calliphoridae. In: McAlpine, J. F. (ed.) Manual of Nearctic Diptera vol. 2 pp. 1133–1145. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.

[VW10] Vargas, J., & D. M. Wood. 2010. Calliphoridae (blow flies). In: Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley & M. A. Zumbado (eds) Manual of Central American Diptera vol. 2 pp. 1297–1304. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.

[W01] Wallman, J. F. 2001. A key to the adults of species of blowflies in southern Australia known or suspected to breed in carrion. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 15: 433–437.

[WT11] Wiegmann, B. M., M. D. Trautwein, I. S. Winkler, N. B. Barr, J.-W. Kim, C. Lambkin, M. A. Bertone, B. K. Cassel, K. M. Bayless, A. M. Heimberg, B. M. Wheeler, K. J. Peterson, T. Pape, B. J. Sinclair, J. H. Skevington, V. Blagoderov, J. Caravas, S. N. Kutty, U. Schmidt-Ott, G. E. Kampmeier, F. C. Thompson, D. A. Grimaldi, A. T. Beckenbach, G. W. Courtney, M. Friedrich, R. Meier & D. K. Yeates. 2011. Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108 (14): 5690–5695.