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
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Drosophilidae
Subfamily:
Drosophilinae
Genus:
Drosophila
Subgenus:
Drosophila

Type species
Musca funebris
Fabricius, 1787
Species groups

virilis-repleta radiation

  • angor
  • annulimana
  • bromeliae
  • canalinea
  • carbonaria
  • carsoni
  • coffeata
  • dreyfusi
  • flavopilosa
  • melanica
  • mesophragmatica
  • nannoptera
  • peruviana
  • quadrisetata
  • repleta
  • robusta
  • virilis

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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