View source for Biology:Sturmia convergens

{{short description|Species of fly}}
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| genus = Sturmia
| species = convergens
| authority = (Wiedemann, 1824)<ref name="Wiedemann1824">{{cite book |last1=Wiedemann |first1=Christian Rudolph Wilhelm |title=Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus Analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniens: maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat |date=1824 |publisher=Kiliae,eregio typoguapheo scholarum|pages=1–60 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/148003#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=11 May 2020}}</ref>
| synonyms = *''Polychnomyia flavohalterata'' <small>Bischof, 1904</small><ref name="Bischof1904">{{cite journal |last1=Bischof |first1=J. |title=Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Muscaria schizometopa |journal=Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich- Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien |date=1904 |volume=54 |pages=79–101 |url=https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/VZBG_54_0079-0101.pdf |access-date=31 March 2022}}</ref>
*''Sturmia completa'' <small>Curran, 1927</small><ref name="Curran1927">{{cite journal |last1=Curran |first1=C.H. |title=New West Indian Tachinidae |journal=American Museum Novitates |date=1927 |volume=260 |issue=1–15 |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/3141//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0260.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=17 March 2022}}</ref>
*''Tachina convergens'' <small>Wiedemann, 1824</small><ref name="Wiedemann1824"/>
*''Tachina setilatera'' <small>Wiedemann, 1824</small><ref name="Wiedemann1824"/>
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'''''Sturmia convergens''''' is a genus of [[Biology:Fly|flies]] in the family [[Biology:Tachinidae|Tachinidae]].<ref name="OHara2020">{{cite web |last1=O’Hara |first1=James E. |last2=Henderson |first2=Shannon J. |first3=D. Monty |last3=Wood |title=Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World|url=http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf |website=Tachinidae Resources |access-date=22 November 2023 |date=5 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="Mitra">{{cite web | url = http://zsi.gov.in/checklist/Indian%20Tachinid%20flies.pdf | title = Checklist Of Indian Tachinid Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Tachinidae) | first = Bulganin | last = Mitra | author2 = Sharma, R.M. | location = Jabalpur | pages = 1–18 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101217065706/http://zsi.gov.in/checklist/Indian%20Tachinid%20flies.pdf | archive-date = 2010-12-17 }}</ref><ref name="OHara_china">{{cite journal | last = O'Hara | first = James E. |author2=Shima, Hiroshi |author3=Zhang, Chuntian | year = 2009 | title = Annotated Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 2190 | pages = 1–236 | location = Auckland, New Zealand | publisher = Magnolia Press | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.2190.1.1 | issn = 1175-5334 | access-date = 2011-02-24 | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02190p236.pdf }}</ref>

It is a [[Biology:Parasitoid|parasitoid]] of the [[Biology:Monarch butterfly|monarch butterfly]] (''Danaus plexippus''), as well as ''Danaus chrysippus'' and ''Agrius convolvuli''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/26946 |title=Agrius convolvuli (convolvulus hawkmoth) |work=[[Biology:Invasive Species Compendium|Invasive Species Compendium]] (ISC) |publisher=CAB International}}</ref> The wasp species ''[[Biology:Taeniogonalos raymenti|Taeniogonalos raymenti]]'' can be reared as a hyperparasite of ''S. convergens''.<ref name="ClarkeZalucki2001">{{cite journal |last1=Clarke |first1=A. R. |last2=Zalucki |first2=M. P. |title=''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) |journal=Pan-pacific Entomologist |date=2001 |volume=77 |issue=2 |pages=68-70|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56142301#page/74/mode/1up|access-date=29 November 2023}}</ref>

==Distribution==
Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, {{wipe|South Africa}}, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, {{wipe|India}}, Sri Lanka, {{wipe|Australia}}, Papua New Guinea.

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[[Category:Tachinidae]]


{{Sourceattribution|Sturmia convergens}}