CLOSED: What kind of fly is this?

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Dee777 Melbourne, Australia Jan 27, 2011

Every day we have minimum 1 of those flies in our apartment in Richmond/Melbourne. This one I found dead between our cuttlery.
How are these orange flies called?
I come from Europe, so I am more used to black flies :-)

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jan 27, 2011

About all I can offer is that this is appears to be a calypterate muscoid fly, possibly a calliphorid.

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Dee777 Melbourne, Australia Jan 27, 2011

Do you have a more common name for me?

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jan 28, 2011

Calliphorids commonly are known as 'blow flies'; their larvae are carrion feeders.

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