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(MHNT) Lucilia sericata on ammis majus🪰

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SpeciesDipteraCalliphoridae
Arthropods

🪰Common green bottle fly

Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826)

Lucilia sericata é uma espécie de inseto cujas larvas, de acordo com pesquisadores franceses, podem ser muito eficientes ao retirar tecidos mortos de grandes feridas que demoram a cicatrizar.

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Lucilia sericata
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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderDiptera
  5. ›familyCalliphoridae
  6. ›genusLucilia
  7. ›speciesLucilia sericata
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderFlies · Diptera
  3. superfamilyOestroidea
  4. subfamilyLuciliinae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. orderFlies · Diptera
  7. suborderBrachycera
  8. superfamilyOestroidea
  9. subfamilyLuciliinae
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丝光绿蝇 (zh), Lucilia sericata (nl), bzučivka zelená (cs), Goldfliege (de), Lucilia sericata (fr), selymes döglégy (hu) … and 16 more languages
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(MHNT) Lucilia sericata on ammis majusCommon European Greenbottle Fly (Lucilia sericata) London, Ontario 2015 06 19 (02)
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