Calliphora vomitoria
(Linnaeus, 1758) · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Calliphora vomitoria's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation13 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility6 822 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System1 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI584 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics469 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Calliphora vomitoria, known as the blue bottle fly, orange-bearded blue bottle, or bottlebee is a species of blow fly, a species in the family Calliphoridae. Calliphora vomitoria is the type species of the genus Calliphora. It is common throughout many continents including Europe, Americas, and Africa. They are fairly large flies, nearly twice the size of the housefly. They can be easily identified by their shiny, blue bodies. While adult flies feed on nectar, females deposit their eggs on rotting corpses, making them important forensic insects, as their eggs and timing of oviposition can be used to estimate time of death.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Diet & foraging2
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Calliphora vomitoria has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
The complete instruction manual Calliphora vomitoria carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 1213×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database · GoaT · Tree of Sex Database · TreeOfSex · invert
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
Record type6 823 records
Origin
Range
Depth
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions20 of 57 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Edmonton, CA | 489 |
| Vancouver, CA | 289 |
| South Kensington, GB | 122 |
| University of Guelphlocation not on record | 121 |
| Tromsø, NO | 46 |
| University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 38 |
| UAclocation not on record | 37 |
| Gothenburg, SE | 29 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 23 |
| NCMGlocation not on record | 19 |
| University of Tokyo, Department of Zoologylocation not on record | 18 |
| The University of Hawaii Insect Museumlocation not on record | 18 |
| WIlocation not on record | 17 |
| Helsinki, FI | 17 |
| New Haven, US | 11 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 9 |
| Departamento de Zoologia, Universidad de La Lagunalocation not on record | 8 |
| NSMKlocation not on record | 7 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 7 |
| Tilburg, NL | 6 |
| CUlocation not on record | 6 |
| DFlocation not on record | 5 |
| Blacksburg, US | 5 |
| University Park, US | 4 |
| Iwate Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 4 |
| CIBIOlocation not on record | 4 |
| DFFW1981location not on record | 3 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 3 |
| DFFW2016location not on record | 3 |
| WSUClocation not on record | 3 |
| DFFW2018location not on record | 3 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 3 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 3 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 2 |
| neflocation not on record | 2 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 2 |
| Bonn, DE | 2 |
| IMEDEAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Washington, US | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Alaska Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| U. S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicinelocation not on record | 2 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 1 |
| Ugentlocation not on record | 1 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 1 |
| Honolulu, US | 1 |
| DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego, US | 1 |
| Wellcome Sanger Institutelocation not on record | 1 |
| Salzburg, AT | 1 |
| Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Colorado State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Calliphora vomitoria was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.