Genus Dioprosopa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Internet References · Works Cited

Is this a Soldier Fly? - Dioprosopa clavata

D. clavata? - Dioprosopa clavata - female

Dioprosopa clavata? - Dioprosopa clavata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Aschiza")

Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)

Subfamily Syrphinae

Tribe Syrphini

Genus Dioprosopa

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

this genus contains New World spp. formerly treated in Pseudodoros Becker 1903 (a monotypic Afrotropical genus, as currently defined)(1)

Explanation of Names

Dioprosopa Hull 1949

Numbers

a single species in our area, 2 spp. total(1)

Range

1 sp. from so. US to Chile & Argentina + one in Andes (Ecuador-Chile)(1)

Internet References

Taxon page(2)

Works Cited

1.	Zur Gattung Pseudodoros Becker, 1903 (Diptera, Syrphidae) Kassebeer C.F. 2000. Dipteron 3(1): 73-92.

2.	Key to the genera of nearctic Syrphidae Miranda G.F.G, Young A.D., Locke M.M., Marshall S.A., Skevington J.H., Thompson F.C. 2013. CJAI 23: 1‒351.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 19 February, 2005 - 12:52pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 August, 2017 - 7:52pm

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