The Drosophila obscura species group belongs to the subgenus Sophophora and contains 6 subgroups: affinis, microlabis, obscura, pseudoobscura, subobscura, and sinobscura.
affinis species subgroup
Drosophila affinis Sturtevant, 1916Drosophila algonquin Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936Drosophila athabasca Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936Drosophila azteca Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936Drosophila dobzhanskii Patterson, 1943Drosophila inexspectata Tsacas, 1988Drosophila narragansett Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936Drosophila novitskii Sulerud and Miller, 1966Drosophila seminole Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936Drosophila tolteca Patterson and Mainland, 1944microlabis species subgroup
Drosophila kitumensis Tsacas in Tsacas et al., 1985Drosophila microlabis Seguy, 1938obscura species subgroup
Drosophila ambigua Pomini, 1940Drosophila bifasciata Pomini, 1940Drosophila cariouae Tsacas in Tsacas et al., 1985Drosophila dianensis Gao and Watabe, 2003Drosophila eniwae Takada, Beppu and Toda, 1979Drosophila epiobscura Parshad and Duggal, 1966Drosophila eskoi Lakovaara and Lankinen, 1974Drosophila frolovae Wheeler, 1949Drosophila imaii Moriwaki and Okada in Moriwaki et al., 1967Drosophila krimbasi Tsacas in Tsacas et al., 1985Drosophila limingi Gao and Watabe, 2003Drosophila obscura Fallen, 1823Drosophila solstitialis Chen, 1994Drosophila tristis Fallen, 1823Drosophila tsukubaensis Takamori and Okada, 1983pseudoobscura species subgroup
Drosophila cuauhtemoci Felix and Dobzhansky in Felix et al., 1976Drosophila lowei Heed, Crumpacker and Ehrman, 1968Drosophila maya Heed and O'Grady, 2000Drosophila miranda Dobzhansky, 1935Drosophila persimilis Dobzhansky and Epling, 1944Drosophila pseudoobscura Frolova in Frolova and Astaurov, 1929sinobscura species subgroup
Drosophila hubeiensis Sperlich and Watabe in Watabe and Sperlich, 1997Drosophila luguensis Gao and Toda, 2003Drosophila sinobscura Watabe in Watabe et al., 1996subobscura species subgroup
Drosophila guanche Monclus, 1976Drosophila madeirensis Monclus, 1984Drosophila subobscura Collin in Gordon, 1936Unplaced
Drosophila alpina Burla, 1948Drosophila helvetica Burla, 1948Drosophila hypercephala Gao and Toda, 2009Drosophila hideakii Gao and Toda, 2009Drosophila quadrangula Gao and Toda, 2009