Drosophila quinaria

Species of fly

Drosophila quinaria

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Diptera
Family:  | Drosophilidae
Genus:  | Drosophila
Species:  |

D. quinaria

Binomial name
Drosophila quinaria

Loew, 1866

Drosophila quinaria is a species of fruit fly in the Drosophila quinaria species group.[1][2][3][4] Most Quinaria group species feed largely on mushrooms. However D. quinaria instead eats decaying vegetative matter, a trait it evolved independently.[5]

## References

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1. ^ "Drosophila quinaria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
2. ^ "Drosophila quinaria species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
3. ^ "Drosophila quinaria". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
4. ^ "Drosophila quinaria Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
5. ^ Scott Chialvo, Clare H.; White, Brooke E.; Reed, Laura K.; Dyer, Kelly A. (January 2019). "A phylogenetic examination of host use evolution in the quinaria and testacea groups of Drosophila". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 130: 233–243\. Bibcode:2019MolPE.130..233S. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.027. PMC 6327841. PMID 30366088.

## Further reading

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* Miller, Meredith E.; Marshall, Stephen A.; Grimaldi, David A. (2017). "A Review of the Species of Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and Genera of Drosophilidae of Northeastern North America". Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification. 31: 1–282\. doi:10.3752/cjai.2017.31.

Taxon identifiers

Drosophila quinaria|

* Wikidata: Q13598308
* Wikispecies: Drosophila quinaria
* BOLD: 27620
* BugGuide: 1018940
* CoL: 8863R
* EoL: 733784
* GBIF: 5073877
* iNaturalist: 505698
* IRMNG: 10957671
* ITIS: 146334
* NCBI: 95624
* Open Tree of Life: 516194

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