Kingdom Animalia Family Drosophilidae Phylum Arthropoda Rank Subgenus | Class Insecta Subfamily Drosophilinae Genus Fruit flies Order Fly | |
Similar Fruit flies, Fly, Hirtodrosophila, Zaprionus, Scaptomyza | ||
Drosophila is a paraphyletic subgenus of the genus Drosophila, a classification of fruit flies. This subgenus was first described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1939.
Phylogeny
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 number of species, like the tumiditarsus species group and the polychaeta species group.
References
Drosophila (subgenus) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA