Drosophila quinaria explained

Drosophila quinaria is a species of fruit fly in the Drosophila quinaria species group. Most Quinaria group species feed largely on mushrooms. However D. quinaria instead eats decaying vegetative matter, a trait it evolved independently.^[1]

Further reading

• A Review of the Species of Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and Genera of Drosophilidae of Northeastern North America. 2017. Miller . Meredith E.. Marshall . Stephen A.. Grimaldi . David A.. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification. 31. 1–282. 10.3752/cjai.2017.31. free.

Notes and References

1. Scott Chialvo . Clare H. . White . Brooke E. . Reed . Laura K. . Dyer . Kelly A. . A phylogenetic examination of host use evolution in the quinaria and testacea groups of Drosophila . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . January 2019 . 130 . 233–243 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.027 . 30366088 . 6327841.