Black-headed Blue Bottle Fly

Protophormia atriceps

General Status Rank: 
Undetermined
Common Name: 
Black-headed Blue Bottle Fly
Scientific Name: 
Protophormia atriceps
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Taxonomy
Group: 
Fly (Blow Fly)
Kingdom: 
Animalia
Phylum: 
Arthropoda
Class: 
Insecta
Order: 
Diptera
Family: 
Calliphoridae
Distribution

Distribution

a northern Holarctic species rarely collected in North America, where it is only known from the far north (north of 80 º) (Marshall, S.A., Whitworth, T. and Roscoe, L. 2011. Blow flies (Diptera; Calliphoridae) of eastern Canada with a key to Calliphoridae subfamilies and genera of eastern North America, and a key to the eastern Canadian species of Calliphorinae, Luciliinae and Chrysomyiinae. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification No. 11, 11 January 2011, available online at http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/ejournal/mwr_11/mwr_11.html, doi: 10.3752/cjai.2011.11
Score: 
U

Number of Occurrences

1 locality (canadensys: access 12.iii.2017)
Score: 
AB
General Status Rank
Rank: 
Undetermined
S Rank: 
SU
Decision Process Description: 
Draft rank by Marjolaine Giroux (2019), contract with ECCC, reviewed by SC, ENR.
Last Updated: 
November 19, 2019

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