Stomorhina lunata (Fabricius, 1805)

Prado e Castro, Catarina, Szpila, Krzysztof, Martinez-SanchezCarla Rego 4, Anabel, Silva, Isamberto, Serrano, Artur R. M. & Boieiro, Mario, 2016, The blowflies of the Madeira Archipelago: species diversity, distribution and identification (Diptera, Calliphoridaes. l.), ZooKeys 634, pp. 101-123 : 108

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Calliphoridae

Stomorhina lunata (Fabricius, 1805) Figs 2F, 3H

Material examined.

Madeira: Bica da Cana (2 females); Loreto (3 females); Prazeres (1 female); Parque eólico (1 female); Ponta de São Lourenço W (1 female); Porto Santo: Ilhéu da Cal N (4 females); Ilhéu da Cal S (2 females); Ilhéu do Ferro (1 female); Fonte da Areia (7 females); Pico do Facho Pin (1 female); Desertas: Castanheira N (1 female).

Remarks.

Stomorhina lunata is distributed almost worldwide, being absent only from the Neotropical and Australasian regions ( Rognes 2013). It is common in Europe including all of the Mediterranean area, and is widely distributed throughout the Iberian Peninsula ( González-Mora and Peris 1988). It is known as a predator on egg-masses of the locust Schistocerca gregaria ( Forskål, 1775) ( Rognes 1998) and a parasite in nests of ants ( Bharti and Bharti 2016). Adults are commonly found on flowers ( González-Mora and Peris 1988).