DROSOPHILIDAE
(fruit or vinegar flies)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Amiota
a genus of fruit flies
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
Cacoxenus
a genus of flies
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 12 images 1 ident. refs
Chymomyza
a genus of fruit flies
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
Drosophila
vinegar flies
Female (Click to open)
 		Genus 7 subtaxa 103 images 5 ident. refs
Lordiphosa acuminata
a fruit fly
Species 1 ident. refs
Lordiphosa andalusiaca
a fruit fly
Male (Click to open)
 		Species 10 images 1 ident. refs
Lordiphosa fenestrarum
a fruit fly
Species 1 ident. refs
Phortica variegata
Variegated Fruit-fly
Species 1 ident. refs
Scaptodrosophila deflexa
a fruit fly
Male (Click to open)
 		Species 9 images 1 ident. refs
Scaptomyza
a genus of fruit flies
Genus 1 ident. refs
Stegana
hunchback flies
Female (Click to open)
 		Genus 1 subtaxa 4 images 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyDROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies)
SuperfamilyEPHYDROIDEA (fruit and shore flies)
InfraorderSchizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
() Bächli, G., Vilela, C.R., Escher, S.A. & Saura, A. 2005 The Drosophilidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 39, 362pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.
Basden, E.B. 1954 *** The distribution and biology of Drosophilidae (Diptera) is Scotland, including an new species of Drosophila ***(Superseded) Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vol 6 Part 3 (15): 603-654.
Basden, E.B. 1952 *** Some Drosophilidae (Diptera) of the British Isles ***(Superseded) Ent. Mon. Mag..
() Cain, A.J., Collin, J.E. & Demerec, V.R. 1952 Correct application of the name Drosophila obscura Fallén and notes on the type of D. tristis Fallén (Dipt. Drosophilidae) EMM Ent. Mon. Mag.: 193-196.
() Chandler, P. The British Isles species of Drosophilidae
Collin, J.E. 1952 Notes on some Drosophilidae (Dipt.) including five additional Britsh species, two of them new to science Ent. Mon. Mag.: 197-199.
() Duda, O. 1934 Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region: vol 84 Drosophilidae Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region - Flies of the Palaearctic (Lindner, E. ed), Vol 84, 64pp, Schweizerbart and Borntraeger science publishers
Fonseca, E.C.M. d’Assis 1965 A short key to the British Drosophilidae (Diptera) including a new species of Amiota Transactions of the Society for British Entomology Vol 16 (10): 233-244.

Larvae/Leaf-miners

Anon. British Leafminers www.leafmines.co.uk/
Pitkin, B. Ellis, W.,Plant, C. & Edmunds, R. The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects www.ukflymines.co.uk

DROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for DROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 52 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for DROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies)
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