Pollenia rudis (Fabricius, 1794)

Khan, Qaiser, Kakar, Asmathullah & Kamran, Kashif, 2024, New faunistic data on Diptera (Hexapoda, Insecta) from the Ziarat Juniperus forest ecosystem (Pakistan), Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 114414-114414 : 114414

Pollenia rudis (Fabricius, 1794)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Qaiser Khan; individualCount: 8; occurrenceID: CD963EB4-53E3-5370-8171-BA7629D2AC94; Taxon : scientificName: Pollenia rudis (Fabricius, 1794); order: Diptera ; family: Polleniidae ; genus: Pollenia ; specificEpithet: rudis; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fabricius, 1794); Location : country: Pakistan; countryCode: PK; stateProvince: Balochistan; county: Ziatar District ; municipality: Ziarat ; decimalLatitude: 30.400139; decimalLongitude: 67.726806; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Qaiser Khan ; Event : eventDate: 2019-06- 24 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Qaiser Khan; individualCount: 12; occurrenceID: F62CEF4C-0F02-5374-907F-32E751689B21; Taxon : scientificName: Pollenia rudis (Fabricius, 1794); order: Diptera ; family: Polleniidae ; genus: Pollenia ; specificEpithet: rudis; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fabricius, 1794); Location : country: Pakistan; countryCode: PK; stateProvince: Balochistan; county: Ziatar District ; municipality: Ziarat ; decimalLatitude: 30.400139; decimalLongitude: 67.726806; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Qaiser Khan ; Event : eventDate: 2019-07- 22 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Qaiser Khan; individualCount: 10; occurrenceID: 93CEB988-CEB5-5A1B-953D-A1BA57E0A3AB; Taxon : scientificName: Pollenia rudis (Fabricius, 1794); order: Diptera ; family: Polleniidae ; genus: Pollenia ; specificEpithet: rudis; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fabricius, 1794); Location : country: Pakistan; countryCode: PK; stateProvince: Balochistan; county: Ziatar District ; municipality: Ziarat ; decimalLatitude: 30.400139; decimalLongitude: 67.726806; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Qaiser Khan ; Event : eventDate: 2019-08- 26 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Qaiser Khan; individualCount: 13; occurrenceID: E0FBFF7E-195C-5A1B-8DBD-08E4FE633B42; Taxon : scientificName: Pollenia rudis (Fabricius, 1794); order: Diptera ; family: Polleniidae ; genus: Pollenia ; specificEpithet: rudis; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fabricius, 1794); Location : country: Pakistan; countryCode: PK; stateProvince: Balochistan; county: Ziatar District ; municipality: Ziarat ; decimalLatitude: 30.400139; decimalLongitude: 67.726806; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Qaiser Khan ; Event : eventDate: 2019-09-09 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Qaiser Khan; individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: C5CCF762-8E6D-5A1E-9BBF-9AFAC934492F; Taxon : scientificName: Pollenia rudis (Fabricius, 1794); order: Diptera ; family: Polleniidae ; genus: Pollenia ; specificEpithet: rudis; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fabricius, 1794); Location : country: Pakistan; countryCode: PK; stateProvince: Balochistan; county: Ziatar District ; municipality: Ziarat ; decimalLatitude: 30.400139; decimalLongitude: 67.726806; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Qaiser Khan ; Event : eventDate: 2019-09- 16 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Qaiser Khan; individualCount: 3; occurrenceID: 80880189-4F6A-5626-86FB-36F4BDF40430; Taxon : scientificName: Pollenia rudis (Fabricius, 1794); order: Diptera ; family: Polleniidae ; genus: Pollenia ; specificEpithet: rudis; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fabricius, 1794); Location : country: Pakistan; countryCode: PK; stateProvince: Balochistan; county: Ziatar District ; municipality: Ziarat ; decimalLatitude: 30.400139; decimalLongitude: 67.726806; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Qaiser Khan ; Event : eventDate: 2019-10-14

Distribution

It has been reported from all provinces of Pakistan except Sindh ( Ghorpadé 2015, Ghorpadé and Shehzad 2013). The species is cosmopolitan ( Byrd and Castner 2010, Chiewchanvit et al. 2017).

Notes

It is commonly known as cluster fly and these are common household nuisances during autumn and winter months. They are parasitic to earthworms ( Capinera 2008). Adults are found during June to October in the study area. This is the first record for the Province (Fig. 11 ).

Figures

Figure 11. Pollenia rudis (Fabricius, 1794).