Stomorhina

Taxobox | name ="Stomorhina lunata"

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image_caption = Male "Stomorhina lunata"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosubsectio = Calyptratae
familia = Calliphoridae
genus = "Stomorhina"
genus_authority = Róndani, 1861 cite web |url=http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/invertebrates/families/Calliphoridae.html |title=Family Calliphoridae |publisher=faunaitalia.it |work=Checklist of the species of the Italian fauna |accessdate=2007-09-02]
species = "S. lunata"
binomial = "Stomorhina lunata"
binomial_authority = (Fabricius, 1805) [ITIS|ID=151714|taxon="Stomorhina"]
synonyms = nowrap|"Stomorhina selgae" Lehrer, 1979 [cite journal |quotes=no |url=http://olericulture.org/000/996/000996675.html |title=Los Calliphoridae de España, I: Rhiniinae y Chrysomyinae (Diptera) |author=D. Gonzalez Mora & S. V. Peris |year=1988 |journal=Eos Madrid |volume=64 |issue=1 |pages=91–139 |format=dead link|date=June 2008 – ^{[http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=author%3A+intitle%3ALos+Calliphoridae+de+Espa%C3%B1a%2C+I%3A+Rhiniinae+y+Chrysomyinae+%28Diptera%29&as_publication=Eos+Madrid&as_ylo=1988&as_yhi=1988&btnG=Search Scholar search]} ]

"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 wide-spread Desert locust ("Schistocerca gregaria"), and the migratory locust ("Locustana migratoria"). [cite paper | first = D. J. | last = Greathead | author = | authorlink = | coauthors = C. Kooyman, M. H. Launois-Luong, and G. B. Popov | title = Les ennemis naturels des criquets du Sahel | version = | publisher = Ministère des Affaires Étrangères des Pays-Bas et CIRAD/PRIFAS (France) | date = 1994 | url = http://locust.cirad.fr/ouvrages_pratiques/pdf/DFPV8.pdf | format = pdf | accessdate = 2008-04-03] [cite paper | first = G. B. | last = Popov | author = | authorlink = | coauthors = M. H. Launois-Luong, J. van der Weel | title = Les oothèques des criquets du Sahel | version = | publisher = Ministère des Affaires Étrangères des Pays-Bas et CIRAD/PRIFAS (France) | date = 1990 | url = http://locust.cirad.fr/ouvrages_pratiques/pdf/DFPV7.pdf | format = pdf | accessdate = 2008-04-03] [cite book | last = Griffiths | first = Charles | authorlink = | coauthors = Mike Picker, and Alan Weaving | title = Field Guide To Insects Of Southern Africa | publisher = Struik Publishers | date = 2005-06-30 | location = South Africa | pages = 440 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-1770070615]

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