Drosophila putrida | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Drosophilidae |
Subfamily: | Drosophilinae |
Genus: | Drosophila |
Subgenus: | Drosophila |
Species group: | testacea |
Species: | D. putrida
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Binomial name | |
Drosophila putrida Sturtevant, 1916
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Drosophila putrida is a species of fruit fly in the family Drosophilidae.[1][2] It is found throughout the temperate central-eastern United States. Like other members of the Drosophila testacea species group, D. putrida breeds exclusively on mushrooms.[3]