Drosophila obscura species group
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The Drosophila obscura species group
belongs to the subgenus Sophophora
and contains 6 subgroups:
affinis, microlabis, obscura, pseudoobscura, subobscura, and sinobscura.
microlabis species subgroup
obscura species subgroup
pseudoobscura species subgroup
sinobscura species subgroup
subobscura species subgroup
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Species group
A species group is an informal taxonomic rank into which an assemblage of closely related species within a genus are grouped because of their morphological similarities and their identity as a biological unit with a single monophyletic origin.-Use:...
belongs to the subgenus Sophophora
Sophophora
The paraphyletic subgenus Sophophora of the genus Drosophila was first described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1939. It contains the best known drosophilid species, Drosophila melanogaster. Sophophora translates as carrier of wisdom...
and contains 6 subgroups:
affinis, microlabis, obscura, pseudoobscura, subobscura, and sinobscura.
Species
affinis species subgroup- Drosophila affinis Sturtevant, 1916
- Drosophila algonquin Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936
- Drosophila athabasca Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936
- Drosophila azteca Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936
- Drosophila dobzhanskii Patterson, 1943
- Drosophila inexspectata Tsacas, 1988
- Drosophila narragansett Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936
- Drosophila novitskii Sulerud and Miller, 1966
- Drosophila seminole Sturtevant and Dobzhansky, 1936
- Drosophila tolteca Patterson and Mainland, 1944
microlabis species subgroup
- Drosophila kitumensis Tsacas in Tsacas et al., 1985
- Drosophila microlabis Seguy, 1938
obscura species subgroup
- Drosophila ambiguaDrosophila ambiguaDrosophila ambigua is a European species of fruit fly.It is known from most European counties, but it is not common in any of them. It is found wild in Spain, but in other countries it is only found in association with the activities of man, being found on farms, public houses, orchards, fruit...
Pomini, 1940 - Drosophila bifasciata Pomini, 1940
- Drosophila cariouae Tsacas in Tsacas et al., 1985
- Drosophila dianensis Gao and Watabe, 2003
- Drosophila eniwae Takada, Beppu and Toda, 1979
- Drosophila epiobscura Parshad and Duggal, 1966
- Drosophila eskoi Lakovaara and Lankinen, 1974
- Drosophila frolovae Wheeler, 1949
- Drosophila imaii Moriwaki and Okada in Moriwaki et al., 1967
- Drosophila krimbasi Tsacas in Tsacas et al., 1985
- Drosophila limingi Gao and Watabe, 2003
- Drosophila obscuraDrosophila obscuraDrosophila obscura is a very abundant European species of fruit fly from the family Drosophilidae. It has been found in most habitat types with exception of coastal areas and open heathland. Larvae can be found in the sap runs of a number of deciduous trees....
Fallen, 1823 - Drosophila solstitialis Chen, 1994
- Drosophila tristisDrosophila tristisDrosophila tristis is a relatively uncommon European species of fruit fly from the family Drosophilidae. It is associated with deciduous woodland. And Adult has been observed feeding on tree sap runs. Adults are in flight from April to November, being most abundant in June to August....
Fallen, 1823 - Drosophila tsukubaensis Takamori and Okada, 1983
pseudoobscura species subgroup
- Drosophila cuauhtemoci Felix and Dobzhansky in Felix et al., 1976
- Drosophila lowei Heed, Crumpacker and Ehrman, 1968
- Drosophila maya Heed and O'Grady, 2000
- Drosophila miranda Dobzhansky, 1935
- Drosophila persimilis Dobzhansky and Epling, 1944
- Drosophila pseudoobscuraDrosophila pseudoobscuraDrosophila pseudoobscura is a species of fruit fly, used extensively in lab studies of speciation.In 2005, D. pseudoobscura was the second Drosophila species to have its genome sequenced, after the model organism Drosophila melanogaster....
Frolova in Frolova and Astaurov, 1929
sinobscura species subgroup
- Drosophila hubeiensis Sperlich and Watabe in Watabe and Sperlich, 1997
- Drosophila luguensis Gao and Toda, 2003
- Drosophila sinobscura Watabe in Watabe et al., 1996
subobscura species subgroup
- Drosophila guanche Monclus, 1976
- Drosophila madeirensis Monclus, 1984
- Drosophila subobscura Collin in Gordon, 1936
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- Drosophila alpina Burla, 1948
- Drosophila helveticaDrosophila helveticaDrosophila helvetica is a rare European species of fruit fly from the family Drosophilidae. It seems to be associated with humid woodland habitat, and sometimes found near farms....
Burla, 1948 - Drosophila hypercephala Gao and Toda, 2009
- Drosophila hideakii Gao and Toda, 2009
- Drosophila quadrangula Gao and Toda, 2009