DROSOPHILIDAE
(fruit or vinegar flies)

DROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

DROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Amiota
a genus of fruit flies
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 references
Cacoxenus
a genus of flies
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms 1 references
Chymomyza
a genus of fruit flies
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 references
Drosophila
vinegar flies
Genus 12 subtaxa 41 trophisms 7 references
Hirtodrosophila confusa
a fruit fly
Species 1 trophisms
Lordiphosa acuminata
a fruit fly
Species 1 references
Lordiphosa andalusiaca
a fruit fly
Species 1 references
Lordiphosa fenestrarum
a fruit fly
Species 1 references
Phortica variegata
Variegated Fruit-fly
Species 6 trophisms 1 references
Scaptodrosophila deflexa
a fruit fly
Species 1 references
Scaptomyza
a genus of fruit flies
Genus 2 subtaxa 3 trophisms 2 references
Stegana
hunchback flies
Genus 1 references
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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for DROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
() 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*** The distribution and biology of Drosophilidae (Diptera) is Scotland, including an new species of Drosophila ***(Superseded) Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vol 6 Part 3 (15): 603-654.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:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource

Parasitology

Starmer, W.T., & Weir, A. 2001 Laboulbeniales associated with the Drosophila affinis subgroup in central New York Dros. Inf. Serv. 84: 22-24.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to DROSOPHILIDAE (fruit or vinegar flies):

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