All species in the family Calliphoridae have bristles on their merones, plumose arista, and well-developed calypters.
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Calliphoridae is arguably the most important family concerning forensic entomology given that they are the first to arrive on the corpse.
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This key advantage enables them to occasionally reach a body before Calliphoridae overall effecting the maggot mass that will be discovered.
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The most common causes of myiasis in humans and animals are the three dipteran families Oestridea, Calliphoridae, and Sarcophagidae.
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They are small slender black bristly flies phylogenetically close to Tachinidae although some authors consider them a sister group of Calliphoridae.
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Most other species of flies implicated in myiasis are members of related families, such as blowflies and screwworm flies in the Calliphoridae.
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As part of the family Calliphoridae " L . thatuna " is involved in myiasis, as most other blowflies are.
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The Oestridae, in turn, are a family within the superfamily Oestroidea, together with the families Calliphoridae, Rhinophoridae, Sarcophagidae, and Tachinidae.
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Calliphoridae eggs, like " C . mortuorum " eggs, usually hatch twenty-four to forty-eight hours after being laid.
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Some species of blow-flies ( Calliphoridae ) in the genus " Melinda " are known parasitoids of Arionidae, Limacidae and Philomycidae.
