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.
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A Drosophila immigrans fly showing the breaks in the abdominal banding pattern of subgenus Drosophila flies | |
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Subgenus: | Drosophila Sturtevant, 1939 |
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Musca funebris Fabricius, 1787 | |
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virilis-repleta radiation
immigrans-tripunctata radiation
Hawaiian Drosophila
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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.[2][3]
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- D. innubila (Quinaria species group)
- D. neotestacea (Testacea species group)
- D. virilis (Virilis species group)
- D. hydei (Repleta species group)
References
- 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.
- "FlyBase phylogeny". Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.117.300583