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).