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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Polleniidae » Cluster flies (Pollenia)
Cluster flies (Calliphoridae: Polleniinae: Pollenia) of North America
By Adam Jewiss-Gaines, Stephen A. Marshall, and Terry L. Whitworth
Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification, 2012
Cite: 616629 with citation markup [cite:616629]
Photographic key and brief notes about Pollenia species known from North America.

Online at https://doi.org/10.3752/cjai.2012.19
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Contributed by John F. Carr on 26 February, 2012 - 1:20pm
Last updated 21 October, 2022 - 7:48am

Guide Updated
Key found here: https://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/articles/jmw-19/
… Sym P. le, 20 October, 2022 - 8:58pm login or register to post comments

guide location moved
Links didn't work for me. New link here -https://www.biologicalsurvey.ca/ejournal/jmw_19/jmw_19.pdf
… Cynthia Brast, 4 February, 2022 - 1:18pm login or register to post comments

Very Good info & guide!
The photos in the key show me just what to focus on when I shoot my next cluster fly!
… Jim Moore, 26 February, 2012 - 3:15pm login or register to post comments

marvelous.
any chance this will help sorting out BG holdings? what do you think?
… v belov, 26 February, 2012 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Maybe
I can't speak for John F. Carr, but I just identified a Pollenia I photographed last year to species using this key. It does require a microscope or very detailed macros of a fly. Not sure most of our submissions have enough detail.
… Ben Coulter, 27 February, 2012 - 1:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Pollenia identification
I'm glad to see some people using the key and enjoying it! Thanks for the kind comments!

Unfortunately, yes it's tough to look at previous photos and identify a Pollenia down to species level. The details are very minute so many of them are tough to ID unless you have a very specific shot. That being said, P. vagabunda and P. griseotomentosa stand out a bit more and might be a tad easier to identify.

I'll take a look through photos on bugguide and see what I can do, though!
… Adam Jewiss-Gaines, 30 June, 2012 - 7:16pm login or register to post comments

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