Table 1.

Taxonomy of nine fruit fly species

Family	Genus	Subgenus	Species
Tephritidae	Ceratitis		capitata
Drosophilidae	Scaptodrosophila*		lebanonensis
	Chymomyza		amoena
			procnemis
	Drosophila	Sophophora	melanogaster
		Zaprionus†	tuberculatus
		Drosophila	virilis
		Hirtodrosophila	pictiventris
		Dorsilopha	busckii

^*Classified as a subgenus of Drosophila in Wheeler (16); raised to genus category in the revision of Grimaldi (17). 

^†Classified as a separate genus in Wheeler (16), but more closely related to other Drosophila subgenera than the subgenus Sophophora (see Fig. 1).