Biology:Steganinae
| Steganinae | |
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| Leucophenga maculata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Drosophilidae |
| Subfamily: | Steganinae Hendel, 1917 |
| Tribes | |
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Steganini | |
The Steganinae Hendel, 1917, is the smaller of two subfamilies in the fruit fly family Drosophilidae. The other subfamily is the Drosophilinae.
Diagnosis
The subfamily is monophyletic (Grimaldi 1990; Sidorenko 2002), but can not be characterised by a single morphological character that distinguishes this subfamily from the Drosophilinae. See for a discussion on this subfamily "Drosophila: A Laboratory Handbook" by M. Ashburner, S. Hawley, K. Golic (not reproduced here due to copyrights).
- D. A. Grimaldi 1990. A phylogenetic, revised classification of genera in the Drosophilidae (Diptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 197: 1–128.
- V. S. Sidorenko 2002. Phylogeny of the tribe Steganini Hendel and some related taxa (Diptera, Drosophilidae). Far Eastern Entomologist 111: 1-20.
Phylogeny
The phylogenetic relationships within the subfamily have not yet been confirmed by molecular studies, and are partially based on traditional cladistic methods using primarily morphological characteristics and partly based on expert opinions. The classification below might be not approved by all scholars in the field, but gives a reasonable overview of our current knowledge:
Tribe: Steganini
- Subtribe: Steganina
- Genus: Eostegana
- Genus: Stegana
- Subtribe: Leucophengina
- Genus: Allopygaea
- Genus: Cacoxenus [1]
- Genus: Leucophenga
Tribe: Gitonini
- Subtribe: Gitonina
- Genus: Amiota
- Genus: Apenthecia
- Genus: Apsiphortica
- Genus: Cacoxenus
- Genus: Crincosia
- Genus: Erima
- Genus: Gitona
- Genus: Paraleucophenga
- Genus: Paraphortica
- Genus: Phortica
- Subtribe: Acletoxenina
- Genus: Acletoxenus
- Genus: Hyalistata
- Genus: Mayagueza
- Genus: Pseudiastata
- Genus: Rhinoleucophenga
- Genus: Trachyleucophenga
- Subtribe unknown
- Genus: Electrophortica
- Genus: Pararhinoleucophenga
- Genus: Parastegana
- Genus: Pseudostegana
Tribe unknown
- Genus: Soederbomia
- Genus: Pyrgometopa
For species within the various genera, see fix Taxodros
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References
Wikidata ☰ Q3972811 entry
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