The Drosophilinae are the largest subfamily in the

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 Steganinae.

Phylogeny

Many molecular studies have addressed small parts of the phylogenetic tree. Most of these studies are limited to species of the genus ''

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 ...

''. The genus ''Drosophila'' is paraphyletic as several genera, such as ''Zaprionus'', ''Scaptomyza'' and ''Lordiphosa'', are positioned within the

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

. Position of the bolded species in the phylogenetic tree is at least reasonably well supported by existing molecular evidence.Thomas, R. H. & J. A. Hunt 1993. Phylogenetic relationships in Drosophila: a conflict between molecular and morphological data. Molecular Biology and Evolution 10(2): 362-374.Yassin A, Araripe LO, Capy P, Da Lage J-L, Klaczko LB, Maisonhaute C, Ogereau D and David JR (2008) Grafting the molecular phylogenetic tree with morphological branches to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the genus Zaprionus (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47:903-915. Tribe: Drosophilini :Subtribe: Colocasiomyina :::Genus: '' Baeodrosophila'' :::Genus: '' Colocasiomyia'' :::Genus: '' Palmomyia'' :::Genus: '' Palmophila'' :Subtribe: Drosophilina ::Infratribe: Drosophiliti :::Genus: '' Bialba'' :::Genus: '' Calodrosophila'' :::Genus: '' Celidosoma'' :::Genus: '' Chymomyza'' :::Genus: '' Dicladochaeta'' :::Genus: '' Hypselothyrea'' :::Genus: '' Jeannelopsis'' :::Genus: '' Lissocephala'' :::Genus: ''

Marquesia ''Marquesia'' is a genus of plant in family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Africa and can be found in Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe. It contains the following species: * '' Marquesia acuminata'' * '' ...

'' :::Genus: '' Microdrosophila'' :::Genus: '' Mulgravea'' :::Genus: '' Neotanygastrella'' :::Genus: '' Paraliodrosophila'' :::Genus: '' Poliocephala'' :::Genus: '' Protochymomyza'' :::Genus: '' Scaptodrosophila'' :::Genus: '' Sphaerogastrella'' :::Genus: '' Styloptera'' :::Genus: '' Tambourella'' :::Genus: '' Zaropunis'' :::Genus: ''

'' including the following genera: ::::*Genus: '' Dettopsomyia'' ::::*Genus: '' Dichaetophora'' ::::*Genus: '' Hirtodrosophila'' ::::*Genus: '' Liodrosophila'' ::::*Genus: ''

Lordiphosa ''Lordiphosa'' is a genus of fly in the family Drosophilidae. Species *''Lordiphosa acongruens, L. acongruens'' (Zhang & Liang, 1992) *''Lordiphosa acuminata, L. acuminata'' (James Edward Collin, Collin, 1952) *''Lordiphosa alticola, L. alticola ...

'' ::::*Genus: '' Mycodrosophila'' ::::*Genus: '' Paramycodrosophila'' ::::*Genus: '' Phorticella'' ::::*Genus: '' Samoaia'' ::::*Genus: '' Scaptomyza'' ::::*Genus: '' Zaprionus'' ::::*Genus: '' Zygothrica'' ::Infratribe: Laccodrosophiliti :::Genus: '' Zapriothrica'' :::Genus: '' Laccodrosophila'' Tribe: Cladochaetini :::Genus: '' Cladochaeta'' :::Genus: '' Diathoneura'' Tribe unknown: :::Genus: '' Miomyia'' :::Genus: '' Collessia'' :::Genus: '' Balara'' For species within the various genera, se
Taxodros

References

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