Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann, 1819)

Prado e Castro, Catarina, Szpila, Krzysztof, Martinez-SanchezCarla Rego 4, Anabel, Silva, Isamberto, Serrano, Artur R. M. & Boieiro, Mario, 2016, The blowflies of the Madeira Archipelago: species diversity, distribution and identification (Diptera, Calliphoridaes. l.), ZooKeys 634, pp. 101-123 : 105

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Calliphoridae

Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann, 1819) Figs 2G, 3D

Material examined.

Porto Santo: Ilhéu do Farol S (1 female).

Remarks.

Chrysomya albiceps can be found from the southern Palaearctic Region (southern Europe, Arabia, India) through to Africa ( Zumpt 1965) and the Americas, where since its introduction it has rapidly expanded north ( Guimarães et al. 1978, Baumgartner and Greenberg 1984). In Europe it is very abundant in the Iberian Peninsula ( Martínez-Sánchez et al. 2002, Prado e Castro et al. 2012) and is expanding towards central Europe, having reached France, Switzerland and Austria ( Grassberger et al. 2003), the Ukraine ( Verves 2004) and Poland, from where its current northernmost records are known ( Szpila et al. 2008, Michalski and Szpila in press). Our record from Ilhéu do Farol is the first for Porto Santo. Chrysomya albiceps normally breeds in carrion; newly-hatched first instar larvae feed on exudations of decomposing flesh, but the second and third larval stages are facultative predators, feeding also on the larvae of other blowfly species ( Zumpt 1965).