The Drosophila melanogaster species group belongs to the subgenus Sophophora and contains 10 subgroups.

[1][2] The phylogeny in this species group is poorly known despite many studies covering many of the species subgroups.

The most likely explanation is that the various subgroups diverged from each other in a relatively short evolutionary time frame.

Three subgroups have not yet been investigated in molecular studies, and their position in the phylogeny is unclear.

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