Pollenia angustigena Wainwright, 1940

Prado e Castro, Catarina, Szpila, Krzysztof, Martinez-SanchezCarla Rego 4, Anabel, Silva, Isamberto, Serrano, Artur R. M. & Boieiro, Mario, 2016, The blowflies of the Madeira Archipelago: species diversity, distribution and identification (Diptera, Calliphoridaes. l.), ZooKeys 634, pp. 101-123 : 106

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Calliphoridae

Pollenia angustigena Wainwright, 1940

Records.

Madeira: Madeira ( Rognes 1987).

Remarks.

This species is cited from most countries of Europe and from the Nearctic Region ( Rognes 1991). In Europe, Pollenia angustigena can be found from the southern parts of Norway and Finland to Italy and the Iberian Peninsula ( Martínez-Sánchez et al. 2002). In the Iberian Peninsula the species seems to be restricted to high altitudes (from 300 m to above 1200 m) ( Martínez-Sánchez et al. 1998). No specimens were caught in this study but the species was previously cited from Madeira ( Rognes 1987, Martínez-Sánchez and Rognes 2008). Adults of this fly are active mostly from March to October with peaks in early spring in the northern parts of its range ( Rognes 1991). As the rest of Pollenia spp., it is a predator on earthworm species ( Rognes 1987). The egg and first instar larva of this species were described by Grzywacz et al. (2012) and Szpila (2003), respectively, and their morphology is significantly different compared to that of necrophagous blowflies.