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Drosophila melanogaster species subgroup

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Diptera

Genus
  
Drosophila

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Family
  
Drosophilidae

Subgenus
  
Sophophora

Higher classification
  
Drosophila melanogaster species group

Similar
  
Fruit flies, Drosophila simulans, Drosophila sechellia, Drosophila yakuba, Fly

The Drosophila melanogaster species subgroup contains 9 species, including the best known species Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. The subgroup belongs to the Drosophila melanogaster species group within the subgenus Sophophora.

Phylogeny

melanogaster complex

  • D. (S.) melanogaster Meigen, 1830

    • simulans complex

  • D. (S.) simulans Sturtevant, 1919
  • D. (S.) mauritiana Tsacas and David, 1974
  • D. (S.) sechellia Tsacas and Bächli, 1981

    • yakuba complex

  • D. (S.) yakuba Burla, 1954
  • D. (S.) santomea Lachaise and Harry, 2000
  • D. (S.) teissieri Tsacas, 1971

    • erecta complex

  • D. (S.) erecta Tsacas and Lachaise, 1974
  • D. (S.) orena Tsacas and David, 1978

    • The species of the simulans complex form a hard polytomy. Most likely, the island species D. (S.) mauritiana (Mauritius) and D. (S.) sechellia (Seychelles) branched off from the mainland species D. (S.) simulans in such a narrow time frame that it is impossible to distinguish which species branched off first and which second.

    References

    Drosophila melanogaster species subgroup Wikipedia
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