Drosophila persimilis

Drosophila persimilis is a species of fruit fly that is a sister species to D. pseudoobscura, and was one of 12 fruitfly genomes sequenced for a large comparative study.^[1]

Drosophila persimilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Drosophilidae
Genus:	Drosophila
Subgenus:	Sophophora
Species group:	Drosophila obscura species group
Species subgroup:	Drosophila pseudoobscura subgroup
Species:	D. persimilis
Binomial name
Drosophila persimilis Dobzhansky and Epling, 1944