Sturmia convergens

Short description: Species of fly

Sturmia convergens

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Diptera
Family:  | Tachinidae
Subfamily:  | Exoristinae
Tribe:  | Goniini
Genus:  | Sturmia
Species:  |

S. convergens

Binomial name
Sturmia convergens

(Wiedemann, 1824)[1]

Synonyms

* Polychnomyia flavohalterata Bischof, 1904[2]
* Sturmia completa Curran, 1927[3]
* Tachina convergens Wiedemann, 1824[1]
* Tachina setilatera Wiedemann, 1824[1]

Sturmia convergens is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.[4][5][6]

It is a parasitoid of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), as well as Danaus chrysippus and Agrius convolvuli.[7] The wasp species Taeniogonalos raymenti can be reared as a hyperparasite of S. convergens.[8]

## Distribution

Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa , Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, India , Sri Lanka, Australia , Papua New Guinea.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1824). Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus Analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniens: maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. Kiliae,eregio typoguapheo scholarum. pp. 1–60. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/148003#page/5/mode/1up. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
2. ↑ Bischof, J. (1904). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Muscaria schizometopa". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich- Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 54: 79–101. https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/VZBG_54_0079-0101.pdf. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
3. ↑ Curran, C.H. (1927). "New West Indian Tachinidae". American Museum Novitates 260 (1–15). https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/3141//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0260.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
4. ↑ O’Hara, James E.; Henderson, Shannon J.; Wood, D. Monty (5 March 2020). "Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World". http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf.
5. ↑ Mitra, Bulganin; Sharma, R.M.. "Checklist Of Indian Tachinid Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Tachinidae)". Jabalpur. pp. 1–18. http://zsi.gov.in/checklist/Indian Tachinid flies.pdf.
6. ↑ O'Hara, James E.; Shima, Hiroshi; Zhang, Chuntian (2009). "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China". Zootaxa (Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press) 2190: 1–236. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02190p236.pdf. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
7. ↑ "Agrius convolvuli (convolvulus hawkmoth)". Invasive Species Compendium (ISC). CAB International. https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/26946.
8. ↑ Clarke, A. R.; Zalucki, M. P. (2001). "Taeniogonalos raymenti Carmean & Kimsey (Hymenoptera : Trigonalidae) reared as a hyperparasite of Sturmia convergens (Weidemann) (Diptera : Tachinidae), a primary parasite of Danaus plexippus (L.) (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae)". Pan-pacific Entomologist 77 (2): 68-70. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56142301#page/74/mode/1up. Retrieved 29 November 2023.

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