Family Drosophilidae Rondani 1856 (fruit fly)
Insecta - Diptera - Drosophilidae
Parent taxon: Ephydroidea according to D. A. Grimaldi and A. H. Kirk-Spriggs 2012
See also Carpenter 1992 and Wiegmann et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Camillidae, Campichoetidae, Cryptochetidae, Curtonotidae, Diastatidae, Ephydridae
Subtaxa: Drosophilinae Steganinae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (1 collection), the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (4), Mexico (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (1)
Total: 10 collections including 19 occurrences