Cynomya cadaverina

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Cynomya cadaverina, also known as the shiny blue bottle fly, is a member of the family Calliphoridae, which includes both blow flies, as well as bottle flies. In recent years, this family has become a forensically important facet in many medicocriminal investigations in the growing field of forensic entomology. C. cadaverina is specifically important in determining a post-mortem interval as well as other important factors.

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  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynomya_cadaverina

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