Conicera tibialis

Conicera tibialis, commonly known as the coffin fly, is a phorid fly in the genus Conicera known for its occurrence on buried human cadavers. Adult female coffin flies can burrow up to 2 meters (6.6 ft) into soil and enter coffins in order to lay eggs on or near the resting corpse. Maggots feed on the flesh of the corpse after hatching, with a preference for lean muscular tissue. Coffin flies sometimes do not surface at all—multiple consecutive generations of coffin flies can cycle completely, entirely underground.^[2] Coffin flies have been found on corpses years after death, and in 2011 an exhumed coffin in central Spain revealed a large number of coffin flies inhabiting the coffin and feeding on the cadaver 18 years after death—far beyond the 3–5 year postmortem intervals previously recorded.^[3]

Conicera tibialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Phoridae
Genus:	Conicera
Species:	C. tibialis
Binomial name
Conicera tibialis Schmitz, 1925[1]