Sturmia convergens

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

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]

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. 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. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
2. Bischof, J. (1904). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Muscaria schizometopa" (PDF). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich- Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 54: 79–101. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
3. Curran, C.H. (1927). "New West Indian Tachinidae" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 260 (1–15). 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" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
5. Mitra, Bulganin; Sharma, R.M. (PDF). Jabalpur. pp. 1–18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17.
6. O'Hara, James E.; Shima, Hiroshi; Zhang, Chuntian (2009). "Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China" (PDF). Zootaxa. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press. 2190: 1–236. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
7. "Agrius convolvuli (convolvulus hawkmoth)". Invasive Species Compendium (ISC). CAB International.
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. Retrieved 29 November 2023.