[3] It is native to Asia and is a parasitoid of various moth species whose larvae feed inside the stems of sugarcane, rice and other large grasses, including the Gurdaspur borer (Bissetia steniellus) and the sugarcane shoot borer (Chilo infuscatellus).

Sturmiopsis inferens is a stout fly with a silvery-white head, dark brown forehead, hairy parafacial area, densely hairy eyes, yellowish-brown antennae, silvery-white abdomen and brownish-black legs.

[4] Madagascar,[5] Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines.

Each female fly is capable of infecting up to three hundred larvae, and twenty to fifty females can be released per hectare about two months after planting the sugarcane crop in order to achieve control.

A newly hatched female mates with a slightly older male and there follows a gestation period of 12 to 16 days.