Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann)

Whitworth, Terry, 2010, Keys to the genera and species of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of the West Indies and description of a new species of Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy, Zootaxa 2663, pp. 1-35 : 21

Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann)

Musca cuprina Wiedemann, 1830: 654 Phaenicia pallescens Hall, 1948: 247

Lucilia cuprina: Whitworth, 2006: 720

Diagnosis. This species has three postsutural acrostichal setae, a character shared only with L sericata in the region. It also has a distinctive dull coppery coloration. Male frons broad, 0.20 (0.19–0.21)/7 of head width; female frons 0.39 (0.38–0.40)/5. Central occipital area with a single seta below inner vertical seta ( Whitworth 2006, fig. 73); abdomen a dull, coppery color.

Distribution. Specimens were seen from Cuba (USNM, FSCA), Haiti (FSCA), Jamaica (USNM), Puerto Rico (WSUP), Trinidad (FSCA), and Virgin Islands (FSCA). Woodley and Hilburn (1994) listed it from Bermuda (USNM).