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Steganinae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Subfamily

Scientific name
  
Steganinae

Higher classification
  
Drosophilidae

Order
  
Fly

Steganinae

Similar
  
Drosophilidae, Fly, Insect, Hirtodrosophila, Scaptodrosophila

The Steganinae , is the smaller of two subfamilies in the fruit fly family Drosophilidae. The other subfamily is the Drosophilinae.

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Diagnosis

The subfamily is monophyletic (Grimaldi 1990; Sidorenko 2002), but can not be characterised by a single morphological character that distinguishes this subfamily from the Drosophilinae. See for a discussion on this subfamily "Drosophila: A Laboratory Handbook" by M. Ashburner, S. Hawley, K. Golic (not reproduced here due to copyrights).

  • D. A. Grimaldi 1990. A phylogenetic, revised classification of genera in the Drosophilidae (Diptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 197: 1-128.
  • V. S. Sidorenko 2002. Phylogeny of the tribe Steganini Hendel and some related taxa (Diptera, Drosophilidae). Far Eastern Entomologist 111: 1-20.

    • Phylogeny

    The phylogenetic relationships within the subfamily have not yet been confirmed by molecular studies, and are partially based on traditional cladistic methods using primarily morphological characteristics and partly based on expert opinions. The classification below might be not approved by all scholars in the field, but gives a reasonable overview of our current knowledge:

    Tribe: Steganini

    Subtribe: Steganina Subtribe: Leucophengina

    Tribe: Gitonini

    Subtribe: Gitonina Subtribe: Acletoxenina Subtribe unknown

    Tribe unknown

    For species within the various genera, see fix Taxodros

    References

    Steganinae Wikipedia
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