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title: "Four-speckled Hover Fly"
description: "Dioprosopa clavata — Insects & spiders. Dioprosopa is a genus of drone flies in the family Syrphidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/four-speckled-hover-fly
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Four-speckled Hover Fly

> Dioprosopa clavata — Insects & spiders. Dioprosopa is a genus of drone flies in the family Syrphidae.

- Scientific name: *Dioprosopa clavata*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 10300
- Wikidata: [Q28608131](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28608131)
- iNaturalist taxon: [479803](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/479803)

## Names

- en: Four-speckled Hover Fly
- es: Mosca flotadora de cuatro manchas

## Countries with the most observations

US (7006), MX (624), AR (443), BR (191), CL (87), PE (41), CR (13), CO (11), DO (10), EC (9), VE (9), CU (8)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioprosopa

## Photo

![Four-speckled Hover Fly](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/four-speckled-hover-fly/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ken Kneidel · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17451780

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/four-speckled-hover-fly?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).