Dioprosopa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Syrphoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Muscomorpha Sectio: Aschiza Superfamilia: Syrphoidea

Familia: Syrphidae
Subfamilia: Syrphinae
Tribus: Syrphini
Genus: Dioprosopa
Species: D. clavata – D. vockerothi

Name

Dioprosopa Hull, 1949: 99

Type species: Syrphus clavatus Fabricius, 1794, by monotypy [as "Baccha clavata Fabricius"]

Gender: feminine

Synonymy

Baccha (Dioprosopa) Hull, 1949: 99 (Protonym); Hull, 1949: 296.
Pseudodoros (Dioprosopa) Hull, 1949; after Mengual et al. 2008, see van Eck & Makris 2016. [As subgenus]
Dioprosopa Hull, 1949; after Mengual et al. 2018. [As valid genus]

Note: Hull, 1949: 99 proposed as subgenus of Baccha. Date of publication: 4 February 1949. See also Hull, 1949: 296. Date of publication: May 1949.

References

Primary references

Hull, F.M. 1949. The genus Baccha from the New World. Entomologica Americana (1947) 27(3): 89–285, 47 pls. BHL Reference page.
Hull, F.M. 1949. The Morphology and Inter-relationship of the Genera of Syrphid Flies, Recent and Fossil. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 26: 257–408. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1949.tb00224.x Reference page.

Additional references

Sabrosky, C.W. 1999. Family-Group Names in Diptera. Pp. 1–360. In: Thompson, F.C. (ed.). Family-group names in Diptera and Bibliography. Myia 10: 576 pp. ISBN 978-90-5782-026-7. PDF. hdl: 10088/17089 Reference page.
Mengual X., Ståhls G. & Rojo S. 2008. First phylogeny of predatory Flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae, Syrphinae) using mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S rRNA genes: conflict and congruence with the current tribal classification. Cladistics 24: 543‑562. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00200.x
Mengual et al. 2018. Molecular phylogenetics of the predatory lineage of flower flies Eupeodes - Scaeva (Diptera: Syrphidae), with the description of the Neotropical genus Austroscaeva gen. nov. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: DOI: doi:10.1111/jzs.12212
van Eck A. & Makris C. 2016. First records of Pseudodoros nigricollis Becker (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Cyprus. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e8139. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8139

Links

syrphidae.com
Dioprosopa – Taxon details on Catalogue of Life (CoL).
Nomenclator Detail Record. Dioprosopa Hull, 1949: 99. Record #4123. Systema Dipterorum (www.diptera.org) version 7.1, last updated 18 August 2026. Evenhuis, N.L. & Pape, T.. Accessed: 8 October 2025.

Reference Detail Record. Hull, 1949. The genus Baccha from the New World. Systema Dipterorum (www.diptera.org) version 6.3, last updated 25 August 2025. Evenhuis, N.L. & Pape, T.. Accessed: 8 October 2025.