Narrow-Cheeked Clusterfly vs Oriental House Rat

Pollenia angustigena compared with Rattus tanezumi

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Narrow-Cheeked Clusterfly	Oriental House Rat
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropods)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Insecta (Insects)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Diptera (Diptera)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Polleniidae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Pollenia	Rattus
Species	Pollenia angustigena	Rattus tanezumi

Evolutionary Relationship

Narrow-Cheeked Clusterfly and Oriental House Rat share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Animalia. (Animals)

Conservation Status

Narrow-Cheeked Clusterfly

LC — Least Concern

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Narrow-Cheeked Clusterfly	Oriental House Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Narrow-Cheeked Clusterfly

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Distributed across Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and United States.

Oriental House Rat

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Oceanian biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa), Asia (Philippines, Taiwan), and Oceania and the Pacific (Kiribati).