Abstract
In the 15 years since the last family-wide taxonomic analysis of the
Drosophilidae, many studies dealing with a limited number of species or groups
have been published. Most of these studies were based on molecular data, but
morphological and chromosomal data continues to accumulate. In this article,
we review more than 120 recent studies and construct a new phylogenetic
hypothesis for the Drosophilinae . Our knowledge about the phylogeny of the
genus Drosophila and the related genera has greatly improved over the past
decades. Many nodes are firmly supported by the existing literature. It is
now clear that the genus Drosophila is highly paraphyletic. On the other hand,
we also draw attention to various unresolved polytomies that remain. Despite
the progress in Drosophilid phylogenetics, much work remains to be done.
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