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.

Drosophila
A Drosophila immigrans fly showing the breaks in the abdominal banding pattern of subgenus Drosophila flies
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Drosophilidae
Subfamily: Drosophilinae
Genus: Drosophila
Subgenus: Drosophila
Sturtevant, 1939
Type species
Musca funebris
Fabricius, 1787
Species groups

virilis-repleta radiation

immigrans-tripunctata radiation

Hawaiian Drosophila

  • antopocerus
  • ateledrosophila
  • haleakalae
  • "modified mouthparts"
  • "modified tarsus"
  • nudidrosophila
  • "picture wing"
  • rustica

unplaced species groups

Phylogeny

 immigrans-tripunctata radiation

 D. quadrilineata species group

 Samoaia

 Zaprionus

 D. tumiditarsus species group

 Liodrosophila

 Dichaetophora

 Hirtodrosophila

 Mycodrosophila

 Paramycodrosophila

 virilis-repleta radiation (in part)

 subgenus Siphlodora

 virilis-repleta radiation (in part)

 Hawaiian Drosophila

 Scaptomyza

 D. polychaeta species group

Cladogram of the subgenus Drosophila

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 numbers of species, like the tumiditarsus species group and the polychaeta species group.[2][3]

References
  1. 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.
  2. "FlyBase phylogeny". Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  3. o'Grady, Patrick M.; Desalle, Rob (2018). "Phylogeny of the Genus Drosophila". Genetics. 209 (1): 1–25. doi:10.1534/genetics.117.300583. PMC 5937177. PMID 29716983.


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