Verticia

see text Verticia is a genus of flies (Diptera) in the family Calliphoridae.

The genus was first described by J.R. Malloch in 1927.

[1][2] The larva of the species Verticia fasciventris are parasites and develop in the heads of termites.

[4][5] The genus name was also used for Bacteria (the species Verticia sediminum) in 2015.

[6] A renaming to Verticiella was proposed in 2016 when the name was discovered to be a later homonym.