Species Pollenia rudis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Probably Pollenia rudis -? - Pollenia rudis - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Oestroidea

Family Polleniidae

Genus Pollenia (Cluster flies)

Species rudis (Pollenia rudis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pollenia rudis (Fabricius, 1794)

Identification

Adults are slightly larger than house flies (Musca domestica), dull grey with black markings and golden-yellow hairs on thorax. The hairs are more numerous on the underside, near the legs. See (1) for photo key to species occurring in North America.

Range

Life Cycle

The immature stages, eggs and larvae, are are seldom seen because they are deposited on the soil and they burrow into earthworms which they parasitize. Maggots are cream colored, elongated and wedge shaped.

Remarks

Probably from Europe. They may have found their way to America in the ballast of ships containing soil, probably along with introduced earthworms.

Internet References

Fact sheet (Russell H.)

Penn State. (Steve Jacobs, Sr. Extension Associate)

EoL

Biological Survey. Cluster Flies (Calliphoridae: Polleniinae: Pollenia) of North America, page 15

Works Cited

1.	Cluster flies (Calliphoridae: Polleniinae: Pollenia) of North America Adam Jewiss-Gaines, Stephen A. Marshall, and Terry L. Whitworth. 2012. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification.

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 26 October, 2004 - 10:37am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Ben Coulter, v belov
Last updated 1 October, 2015 - 2:18pm

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