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Species of fly
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
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b
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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 .
^ 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 .
^ Curran, C.H. (1927).
"New West Indian Tachinidae" (PDF) . American Museum Novitates . 260 (1–15). Retrieved 17 March 2022 .
^ 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 .
^ Mitra, Bulganin; Sharma, R.M.
"Checklist Of Indian Tachinid Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Tachinidae)" (PDF) . Jabalpur. pp. 1–18. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17.
^ O'Hara, James E.; Shima, Hiroshi; Zhang, Chuntian (2009).
"Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China" (PDF) . Zootaxa . 2190 . Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 1–236.
doi :
10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1 .
ISSN
1175-5334 . Retrieved 2011-02-24 .
^
"Agrius convolvuli (convolvulus hawkmoth)" .
Invasive Species Compendium (ISC) .
CAB International .
^ 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 .