Drosophila mojavensis

Drosophila mojavensis is a cactophilic species of fruit fly from the southwestern United States and Mexico, and was one of 12 fruitfly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study.^[1]

Drosophila mojavensis - Female

Drosophila mojavensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Drosophilidae
Genus:	Drosophila
Subgenus:	Drosophila
Species group:	Drosophila repleta group
Species subgroup:	Drosophila mulleri subgroup
Species:	D. mojavensis
Binomial name
Drosophila mojavensis Patterson et al., 1940