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Chrysomya megacephala (Oriental latrine blowfly)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Chrysomya megacephala, more commonly known as the oriental latrine fly, is a member of the family Calliphoridae (blowflies). It is a warm-weather fly with a greenish-blue metallic box-like body. The fly infests corpses soon after death, making it important to forensic science. This fly is implicated in some public health issues; it can cause accidental myiasis, and also infects fish and livestock.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Al Wathba Wetland Reserve 1236 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates      

Prey / Diet

Jatropha curcas (Barbados nut)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Apis florea (dwarf honey bee)1

Consumers

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Pollination ecology and fruiting behaviour in a monoecious species, Jatropha curcas L. (Euphorbiaceae), A. J. Solomon Raju and V. Ezradanam, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 83, NO. 11, 10 DECEMBER 2002, pp. 1395-1398
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 3Kaiser-Bunbury et al. 2009 Community structure of pollination webs of Mauritian heathland habitats. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 11, 241-254.
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0