| Stomorhina lunata | |
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| Male Stomorhina lunata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Calliphoridae |
| Genus: | Stomorhina Róndani, 1861 [1] |
| Species: | S. lunata |
| Binomial name | |
| Stomorhina lunata (Fabricius, 1805) [2] |
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| Synonyms | |
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Stomorhina selgae Lehrer, 1979 [3] |
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Stomorhina lunata is a species of fly in the family Calliphoridae, often misidentified because of the unusual band pattern in the abdomen, typical of hoverflies. S. lunata is an important egg predator of some major African agricultural pests, the South African Brown locust (Locustana pardalina), the more widespread Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria), and the migratory locust (Locustana migratoria).
This species is present in most of Europe, in the Afro-tropical ecozone, in the eastern Palearctic ecozone, in the Near East, in the Nearctic ecozone, in North Africa and in the Oriental ecozone.