''Drosophila immigrans'' is a species of
vinegar fly in the family
Drosophilidae
The Drosophilidae are a diverse, cosmopolitan family of flies, which includes species called fruit flies, although they are more accurately referred to as vinegar or pomace flies. Another distantly related family of flies, Tephritidae, are true ...
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[ ''Drosophila immigrans'' is a member of the Immigrans-tripunctata radiation of the subgenus ]Drosophila
''Drosophila'' () is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or (less frequently) pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many speci ...
. It is related to the '' Drosophila quinaria'' and ''Drosophila testacea
''Drosophila testacea'' is a member of the ''testacea'' species group of '' Drosophila''. Testacea species are specialist fruit flies that breed on the fruiting bodies of mushrooms. ''Drosophila testacea'' can be found in temperate regions of E ...
'' species groups, and the fellow Immigrans species group member '' Drosophila albomicans''. ''Drosophila immigrans'' has been used in evolutionary studies to understand how viruses evolve with their hosts.
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Insects described in 1921
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