Drosophila (subgenus)

Drosophila is a paraphyletic subgenus of the genus Drosophila, a classification of fruit flies. This subgenus was first described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1939.^[1] Members of the subgenus Drosophila can be distinguished from other drosophilid species by breaks in the pigmentation along the dorsal section of their abdomen.

Drosophila
A Drosophila immigrans fly showing the breaks in the abdominal banding pattern of subgenus Drosophila flies
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Drosophilidae
Subfamily:	Drosophilinae
Genus:	Drosophila
Subgenus:	Drosophila Sturtevant, 1939
Type species
Musca funebris Fabricius, 1787
Species groups
virilis-repleta radiation angor annulimana bromeliae canalinea carbonaria carsoni coffeata dreyfusi flavopilosa melanica mesophragmatica nannoptera peruviana quadrisetata repleta robusta virilis immigrans-tripunctata radiation bizonata calloptera cardini funebris guarani histrio macroptera pallidipennis pinicola quinaria rubrifrons sticta testacea tripunctata immigrans Hawaiian Drosophila antopocerus ateledrosophila haleakalae "modified mouthparts" "modified tarsus" nudidrosophila "picture wing" rustica unplaced species groups antioquia aureate nigrosparsa onychophora picta polychaeta simulivora tumiditarsus xanthopallescens

Phylogeny

immigrans-tripunctata radiation  D. quadrilineata species group  Samoaia  Zaprionus  D. tumiditarsus species group  Liodrosophila  Dichaetophora  Hirtodrosophila  Mycodrosophila  Paramycodrosophila  virilis-repleta radiation (in part)  subgenus Siphlodora  virilis-repleta radiation (in part)  Hawaiian Drosophila  Scaptomyza  D. polychaeta species group

Cladogram of the subgenus Drosophila

Most species are within three major groups, the virilis-repleta radiation, the immigrans-tripunctata radiation and the Hawaiian Drosophila. Additionally, several smaller species groups are recognized consisting of smaller numbers of species, like the tumiditarsus species group and the polychaeta species group.^[2][3]

Gallery

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  D. immigrans (immigrans species group)
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  D. innubila (quinaria species group)
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  D. funebris (funebris species group)
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  D. neotestacea (testacea species group)
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  D. virilis (virilis species group)
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  D. mercatorum (repleta species group)
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  D. silvestris (Hawaiian picture-wing Drosophila)
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  Zaprionus indianus (Zaprionus genus)

References

1. Sturtevant, A. H. (1939). On the subdivision of the genus Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 25, 137–141.
2. "FlyBase phylogeny". Retrieved 24 August 2019.
3. o'Grady, Patrick M.; Desalle, Rob (2018). "Phylogeny of the Genus Drosophila". Genetics. 209 (1): 1–25. doi:10.1534/genetics.117.300583. PMC 5937177. PMID 29716983.