Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius, 1794)

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 : 105-106

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Calliphoridae

Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius, 1794) Figs 2H, 3E

Records.

Madeira: Funchal ( Báez 1990).

Remarks.

Chrysomya megacephala is widely distributed over the Oriental and Australasian regions, also occurring in many neighbouring parts of the Palaearctic Region ( Zumpt 1965). It was introduced in South America ( Guimarães et al. 1978), probably from southern Africa ( Baumgartner and Greenberg 1984), and into the United States ( Greenberg 1988). In Europe it is known from Spain ( Martínez-Sánchez et al. 2001), Portugal ( Prado e Castro and García 2009), Malta ( Ebejer 2007) and from the archipelagos of Madeira ( Báez 1990) and the Canaries ( Báez et al. 1981). Chrysomya megacephala is normally a faeces and carrion breeder ( Zumpt 1965), considered a dangerous dipteran vector of pathogens ( Wells 1991) and a major pest of fish products ( Wall et al. 2001).