Drosophila obscura species group

Drosophila obscura species group
Drosophila pseudoobscura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Drosophilidae
Subfamily:	Drosophilinae
Genus:	Drosophila
Subgenus:	Sophophora
Species group:	obscura Sturtevant, 1942
species subgroups
affinis microlabis obscura pseudoobscura sinobscura subobscura

The Drosophila obscura species group belongs to the subgenus Sophophora and contains 6 subgroups: affinis, microlabis, obscura, pseudoobscura, subobscura, and sinobscura.[1][2]

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 ambigua 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 obscura Fallen, 1823
• Drosophila solstitialis Chen, 1994
• Drosophila subsilvestris Hardy & Kaneshiro, 1968
• Drosophila tristis 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 pseudoobscura 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

Unplaced

• Drosophila alpina Burla, 1948
• Drosophila helvetica Burla, 1948
• Drosophila hypercephala Gao and Toda, 2009
• Drosophila hideakii Gao and Toda, 2009
• Drosophila quadrangula Gao and Toda, 2009

References

1. Therese A. Markow; Patrick M. O'Grady (2005). Drosophila: A guide to species identification and use. London: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-473052-6.
2. "FlyBase phylogeny". Retrieved 24 August 2019.