Authors : Farrokh Dabiri, Ehsan Radi, Kamran Akbarzadeh, Parisa Soltanalinejad, Mehdi Khoobdel and Seyed Javad Seyedzadeh
Abstract: The blow fly (Calliphoridae) are flies of graet ecological, medical and sanitary importance because they are decomposers of organic matter, mechanical vectors of pathogenic agents and causer of myiasis. This study was conducted to ascertain the fauna of medicaly-important Calliphoridae in Urmia. The sampling process has been done during active seasons of of 2014 and 2015 (April, May, June, July, August and September) from 9 sampling sites have been selected. Two methods, bottle fly traps and net collecting have been used for sampling and The specimens identified by valid identification keys. In this study, a total of 1042 adult flies were collected include Lucilia sericata Meigen (43.8%), Lucilia caesar Linnaeus (1.8%) and Lucilia sp.* (0.3%), Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy (41.4%) and Calliphora vomitoria Linnaeus (0.9%), Chrysomya albiceps Wiedemann (7.5%), Pollenia rudis Fabricius (4.3%).
Farrokh Dabiri, Ehsan Radi, Kamran Akbarzadeh, Parisa Soltanalinejad, Mehdi Khoobdel and Seyed Javad Seyedzadeh, 2020. The Survey of Medically-Important Blowfly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Urmia County, Northwest of Iran. Environmental Research Journal, 14: 76-79.