Bellardia vulgaris

5-11mm. A typical blowfly with a stocky stature. The abdomen is green and metallic, the thorax is grey.

Bellardia as a genus have parafacialia with long hairs, the bend of vein M1 is obtuse and the abdomen is brown, black or green but rarely blue.

Other Bellardia species.

Microscopic examination of the genitalia is required for a definate identification of the species.

Your specimen should have all of these features:

• green abdomen
• lower calypter hairy
• arista with long hairs
• upper parafacialia without a brown spot
• lower calypter pale or partly infuscated
• front tibia with 1 pv bristle
• costa without hairs between Sc and R1

Grassland, wetland, wasteground.

April - September

Reasonably common and widespread.

Rare or under-recorded.

It is a parasite of earthworms, though the host species is unknown.