Phormia regina ( Meigen 1826 )

Stotelmyre, Lyle Magee, 2024, Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of the Baja California Peninsula, Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 308-330 : 319

Phormia regina ( Meigen 1826)

Musca regina Meigen 1826: 58 . Type Location : not given [= Germany. Aachen area].

Musca thalassina Meigen, 1826: 54 . Junior synonym.

Musca accincta Wiedemann, 1830: 407 . Junior synonym.

Phormia philadelphica Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 466 . Junior synonym.

Phormia cuprea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 467 . Junior synonym.

Phormia fulvifacies Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 467 . Junior synonym.

Phormia vittata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 467 . Junior synonym.

Phormia squalens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 468 . Junior synonym.

Musca mollis Walker, 1849: 892 . Junior synonym.

Musca bicolor Walker, 1853: 339 . Senior synonym; junior primary homonym preoccupied by Musca bicolor Villers, 1789: 511 , new name for Musca putris Geoffroy, 1785: 490 (in Fourcroy, 1785), junior primary homonym, preoccupied by Musca putris Linnaeus, 1758: 597 , [= Themira (Themira) putris ( Linnaeus, 1758) ( Sepsidae )].

Musca proxima Walker, 1853: 341 . Junior synonym.

Somomya lucens Rondani, 1862: 189. Junior synonym.

Lucilia rufipalpis Jaennicke, 1867: 375 . Junior synonym.

Lucilia stigmaticalis Thomson, 1869: 544 . Junior synonym.

Somomya nigrina Bigot, 1877b: 247 . Junior synonym.

Somomyia rufigena Bigot, 1887 : clxxxi. Junior synonym.

Somomyia rupicola Bigot, 1888b : clxxx. Junior synonym.

Phormia aurisquama Villeneuve, 1928: 151 . Junior synonym.

Distribution: Europe. Northern Palaearctic region; Hawaii; Alaska and Quebec southward to Georgia and Mexico.

Remarks: The Black Blowfly is the second most abundant species recorded by Munguia-Ortega in Baja California and ubiquitous throughout California, having been recorded in 46 of the 58 California Counties. It is an occasional producer of human myiasis and in some localities a common facultative parasite in wounds of domestic animals. It is an important sheep wool maggot in parts of the United States. In California, according to information furnished to James in 1955 by Dr. J. R. Douglas, it ranked third in importance in this role, being placed below Cochliomyia macellaria and Lucilia sericata . It has a characteristic metallic blueish-green body with bright orange setae in the thoracic spiracle.

Material examined: BAJA CALIFORNIA: Baja Calif. V. Trinidad , vii-1927 L.M. Huey ( SDM) ; Baja Calif. 26 mi. S. San Felipe, 15-iv-1965 D.Q. Cavagnaro, E.S. Ross, V.L. Vesterby ( CAS); (literature review) : El Mogor , Sierra Juarez, Sierra San Pedro Martir, Cerro Santo Tomas , Rio Hardy, San Felipe, Punta Final, Representative voucher specimens 2017–19 Ketzaly Munguia-Ortega ( ECSR) ; BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR: Guadalupe Island , Baja Calif. NE anchorage 25-x-1957 J.W. Sefton Jr. ( SDM) ; Guadalupe Island , Northwest Anchorage ii-14-1973 J.D. Pinto ( UCR) ; Mexico Baja Calif. 2 mi. NNW San Matias, 13 APR 1980 J.W. Brown ( SDM) ; Isla de Guadalupe 23 Apr 1984 D.K. Faulkner ( SDM) ; Isla de Guadalupe , SE end Village Cyn. 9 Dec 1984 D.K. Faulkner ( SDM) .