Four-speckled Hover Fly

Dioprosopa clavata

Field notes

Dioprosopa is a genus of drone flies in the family Syrphidae. There are at least two described species in the genus Dioprosopa, both found in the New World.

Dioprosopa was formerly considered a subgenus of Pseudodoros, but was promoted to genus rank as a result of phylogenetic studies in 2018.

Supported by All

197 native plants
support it in the US

Food plants Plants it feeds on Small Palafox, Green Antelopehorns, Bluestem Goldenrod, Desert Broom 8
Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits White Beggarticks, Turkey Tangle Frogfruit, California Buckwheat, Blue Mistflower 189

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided