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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Drosophila guttifera

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Ephydroidea
Family Drosophilidae (Vinegar Flies)
Subfamily Drosophilinae
Genus Drosophila
No Taxon ((Drosophila) quinaria species group)
Species guttifera (Drosophila guttifera)
Explanation of Names
Drosophila guttifera Walker 1849
Range
Eastern USA, more common in Southeast
Food
"This species is to be found about fleshy fungi, from which both Mr. Adkins and I have bred it. Either gill-fungi or pore-fungi will serve for its development." (Sturtevant, 1921)