title: [Description and key to the main species of Calliphoridae (Diptera) larvae of forensic importance from Colombia].
abstract: Larvae of 13 blowfly species from Colombia are described and an illustrated key for all them is presented. All larval instars of Calliphora nigribasis Macquart, Cochliomyia macellaria (Fabricius), Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann), Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius), Hemilucilia segmentaria (Fabricius), Hemilucilia semidiaphana (Rondani), Lucilia eximia (Weidemann) are described, but the second and third instars of Compsomyiops verena (Walter), and only the third instar of Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel), Lucilia peruviana Robineau-Desvoidy, Lucilia sericata (Meigen) and Sarconesiopsis magellanica (Le Guillou).
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Entomología, University de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. elianaflorez@gmail.com
authors.forename: Eliana
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Florez
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolff
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003105:Colombia; D004175:Diptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D007814:Larva / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification