Drosophila subgen. Drosophila Sturtevant, 1939
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Drosophila is a paraphyletic subgenus of the genus Drosophila, a classification of fruit flies. This subgenus was first described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1939.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. 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 is a paraphyletic subgenus of the genus Drosophila, a classification of fruit flies. This subgenus was first described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1939.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. 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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File:Drosophila immigrans side on (14412343468).jpg|''[[Drosophila immigrans|D. immigrans]]'' ([[Drosophila immigrans species group|''immigrans'' species group]]) File:Dinnubila4.tif|''[[Drosophila innubila|D. innubila]]'' ([[Drosophila quinaria species group|''quinaria'' species group]]) File:Dfun-male.tif|''[[Drosophila funebris|D. funebris]]'' ([[Drosophila funebris species group|''funebris'' species group]]) File:Dneotestacea3.tif|''[[Drosophila neotestacea|D. neotestacea]]'' ([[Drosophila testacea species group|''testacea'' species group]]) File:Dvir 1.tif|''[[Drosophila virilis|D. virilis]]'' ([[Drosophila virilis species group|''virilis'' species group]]) File:Dhyd 5.tif|[[Drosophila mercatorum|''D. mercatorum'']] ([[Drosophila repleta species group|''repleta'' species group]]) File:Drosophila silvestris Kilohana 5161a.jpg|''[[Drosophila silvestris|D. silvestris]]'' ([[Hawaiian Drosophila|Hawaiian picture-wing ''Drosophila'']]) File:Zaprionus indianus cropped.jpg|''[[Zaprionus indianus]]'' (''[[Zaprionus]]'' genus)
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 numbers of species, like the tumiditarsus species group and the polychaeta species group.