#3822 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Blue Blowfly
🇳🇱 Roodwangbromvlieg ·Calliphora vicina
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Calliphora vicina is a member of the family Calliphoridae, which includes blow flies and bottle flies. These flies are important in the field of forensic entomology. C. vicina is currently one of the most entomologically important fly species because of its consistent time of arrival and colonization of the body following death.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 94 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 33,648 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1830 (196 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Blue Blowfly
- Nederlands
- Roodwangbromvlieg
- scientific name
- Calliphora vicina
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Calliphoridae
- sightings in NL
- 94
- sightings in Europe
- 2,435
- sightings worldwide
- 33,648
- GBIF records in NL
- 10,724
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1830 by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy
relatives· Calliphoridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 119115, Wikidata Q1060187, GBIF 1502577, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.