The Steganinae Hendel, 1917, is the smaller of two subfamilies in the fruit fly 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 ...

. The other subfamily is the

Drosophilinae The Drosophilinae are the largest subfamily in the Drosophilidae. The other subfamily is the Steganinae. Phylogeny Many molecular studies have addressed small parts of the phylogenetic tree. Most of these studies are limited to species of t ...

Diagnosis

The subfamily is monophyletic (Grimaldi 1990; Sidorenko 2002), but can not be characterised by a single morphological character that distinguishes this subfamily from the

. See for a discussion on this subfamily "''

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 ...

'': A Laboratory Handbook" by M. Ashburner, S. Hawley, K. Golic (not reproduced here due to copyrights). * D. A. Grimaldi 1990. A

phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...

, revised classification of genera in the

( Diptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 197: 1-128. * V. S. Sidorenko 2002.

Phylogeny A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spe ...

of the tribe Steganini Hendel and some related taxa ( Diptera,

). Far Eastern Entomologist 111: 1-20.

Phylogeny

The

relationships within the subfamily have not yet been confirmed by molecular studies, and are partially based on traditional

cladistic Cladistics (; ) is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry. The evidence for hypothesized relationships is typically shared derived char ...

methods using primarily morphological characteristics and partly based on expert opinions. The classification below might be not approved by all scholars in the field, but gives a reasonable overview of our current knowledge: Tribe: Steganini :Subtribe: Steganina ::Genus: '' Eostegana'' ::Genus: '' Stegana'' :Subtribe: Leucophengina ::Genus: '' Allopygaea'' ::Genus: '' Cacoxenus'' Houdini fly inflates head to break walls
/ref> ::Genus: '' Leucophenga'' Tribe: Gitonini :Subtribe: Gitonina ::Genus: '' Amiota'' ::Genus: '' Apenthecia'' ::Genus: '' Apsiphortica'' ::Genus: '' Cacoxenus'' ::Genus: '' Crincosia'' ::Genus: ''

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'' ::Genus: '' Gitona'' ::Genus: '' Paraleucophenga'' ::Genus: '' Paraphortica'' ::Genus: '' Phortica'' :Subtribe: Acletoxenina ::Genus: '' Acletoxenus'' ::Genus: '' Hyalistata'' ::Genus: '' Mayagueza'' ::Genus: '' Pseudiastata'' ::Genus: '' Rhinoleucophenga'' ::Genus: '' Trachyleucophenga'' :Subtribe unknown ::Genus: '' Electrophortica'' ::Genus: '' Pararhinoleucophenga'' ::Genus: '' Parastegana'' ::Genus: '' Pseudostegana'' Tribe unknown ::Genus: '' Soederbomia'' ::Genus: '' Pyrgometopa'' For species within the various genera, se
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References

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