ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 162 (key), 163 (description).
TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agri parmensis planitie et collibus … in Pedemontio [Parmese plains and hills … Piedmont (Italy)]”.
TYPE MATERIAL: 4 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing mid- and right hind-legs; one missing left fore-leg; one missing right fore-, both mid-, and right hind-legs) (MZUF: Box 12): Phorocera Mgn / polleniella Rnd., ♂ / 593; 4 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right mid-leg; one missing mid-legs; one missing left mid-leg; one missing right fore-, right mid- and both hind-legs) (MZUF: Box 12): Phorocera Mgn / polleniella Rnd., ♀ / 593; 1 ♂, syntype (missing mid-legs), 1 ♀, syntype (missing head and right fore-leg, thorax partially eaten by dermestids) (MZUF: Box D): Phorocera polleniella R., 241, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 241; 1 ♀, syntype (MRSN, Box 1756): Parma / Phorocera polleniella 41, Rndn. / Museo di Zoologia della Università Torino, Italia; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid-leg) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Phorocera polleniella R. 57 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. E-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right fore-, left mid- and hind-legs) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Phorocera polleniella R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. E-13 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes (MSNPV: Box 96): Phorocera polleniella R., 120, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype (MZUB: Box 325): 22 78 / Phorocera polleniella Rond., ex a. parmensi / polleniella Rndn., ♂ ♀, Rndn., Parma; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid-leg), 1 ♀, syntype (OUMNH General Collection: Box 167.2): syntype / Type / P. polleniella Ex. Coll. Big. / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. (OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachinidae Clemelis pullata (Meigen, 1824), Palaearctic.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Clemelis pullata (Meigen, 1824) (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 232).
REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 163) described both sexes of Phorocera polleniella without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material that he had collected and that he had also received from L. Bellardi. We found 18 syntypes in this study.