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  9. ›Schizophoran Flies
  10. ›Acalyptrate Flies
  11. ›Ephydroidea
  12. ›Vinegar and Fruit Flies
  13. ›Drosophilinae
  14. ›Drosophila
  15. ›Sophophora
  16. ›Drosophila melanogaster
Similar fruit fly
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Similar fruit fly

Drosophila simulans

Drosophila simulans is a species of fly closely related to D. melanogaster, belonging to the same melanogaster species subgroup. Its closest relatives are D. mauritiana and D. sechellia.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 329849.