Drosophila melanogaster species group

Drosophila melanogangster species group
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Drosophilidae
Subfamily:	Drosophilinae
Genus:	Drosophila
Subgenus:	Sophophora
species group:	melanogaster
species subgroups
denticulata elegans eugracilis ficusphila flavohirta longissima melanogaster rhopaloa suzukii takahashii

The Drosophila melanogaster species group belongs to the subgenus Sophophora and contains 10 subgroups.^[1][2] The phylogeny in this species group is poorly known despite many studies covering many of the species subgroups. The most likely explanation is that the various subgroups diverted from each other in a relative short evolutionary time frame. Three subgroups have not yet been investigated in molecular studies, and their position in the phylogeny is unclear. The suzukii subgroup is paraphyletic as D. lucipennis is systematically placed within the elegans subgroup.

melanogaster  species  subgroup  flavohirta  species  subgroup  takahashii and suzukii  species  subgroup  eugracilis  species  subgroup  ficusphila  species  subgroup  elegans  species  subgroup  rhopaloa  species  subgroup

Species subgroups:

• D. denticulata species subgroup
• D. elegans species subgroup
• D. eugracilis species subgroup
• D. ficusphila species subgroup
• D. flavohirta species subgroup
• D. longissima species subgroup
• D. melanogaster species subgroup
• D. rhopaloa species subgroup
• D. suzukii species subgroup
• D. takahashii species subgroup

References

1. Bächli, G. (1999-2010). TaxoDros: The Database on Taxonomy of Drosophilidae. Available at http://taxodros.unizh.ch/
2. Da Lage, J.-L., Kergoat, G. J., Maczkowiak, F., Silvain, J.-F., Cariou, M.-L. & Lachaise, D. (2007). A phylogeny of Drosophilidae using the Amyrel gene: questioning the Drosophila melanogaster species group boundaries. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 45, 47–63.