Drosophila quinaria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Drosophilidae |
Genus: | Drosophila |
Species: | D. quinaria
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Binomial name | |
Drosophila quinaria Loew, 1866
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Drosophila quinaria is a species of fruit fly in the Drosophila quinaria species group.[1][2][3][4] Most Quinaria group species feed largely on mushrooms. However D. quinaria instead eats decaying vegetative matter, a trait it evolved independently.[5]