Pollenia viatica Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Pollenia viatica Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Most recent taxonomic treatment. Rognes (1991a, as pallida Rohdendorf; 1991b). Material. Aragatsotn: Below Spitak Pass, N 40°45 E44°16, 2300–2380 m, 31.vii.2015, 1 ♂ [2600, dissected], 4 ♀ [2601, 2602, 2603, 2604]. Tavush: Haghartsin monastery environs, N40°48 E44° 53, 1440–1700 m, 10.viii.2017, 1 ♂ [2629, dissected]. Previous Armenian records. Rognes (1991a: 230) reported P. viatica (as pallida) from Armenia. Rognes (1991b: 494) corrected this, pointing out that the record was based on a misidentified female of P. mediterranea Grunin from “ 8 km ‘S Bigenak perevala’ [Bichenakskiy Pass]” in Nakhchivan, thus in Azerbaijan (see Rognes 1991b: 476). Distribution. Widely distributed in the Western Palaearctic Region, east to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, south to Syria (Golan Heights), Israel and West Bank.Published as part of Rognes, Knut, 2019, The Calliphoridae (Diptera) of Armenia, pp. 375-391 in Zootaxa 4576 (2) on pages 388-389, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/262483