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robison1@husc10.harvard.edu (Keith Robison) writes:
: rambaut@castle.ed.ac.uk (A E Ram aut) writes:
: 
: >Please could someone tell me the family of flies that contains the
: >genus Drosophila.  This organism is so ubiquitous (in the literature)
: >that noone ever seems to give its taxonomy. This is very urgent and I
: >have no access to the library for the moment.
: 
: >Thanks alot.
: >Andrew
: 
: >p.s. probably a good idea to email me as I am sure noone else would be
: >in the slightest bit interested.
: 
: The taxonomy used by GenBank (the US DNA sequence repository) is:
: 
: Eukaryotae/Animalia/Metazoa/Arthropoda/Uniramia/Insecta/Pterygota/Neoptera
: /Holometabola/Diptera/Brachycera/Cyclorrhapha/Drosophila
: 
: There's obviously some additions to Linnaeus' scheme here, but I
: believe you can sort it out.

The only problem is: Where is the family? It should be between
Cyclorrhapha and Drosophila. The other information seems
rather trivial. (I think we all know that Drosophila is a
fly.)

So, the answer to the original question is Drosophilidae.
(Family names always end in -idae in zoology, and in this
case, Drosophila is the genus that gives the family its name.
Thus, the probability that the family affiliation has changed
is somewhat reduced. However, I can't grant that it is up to date.) 

: [...] 
: 
: Keith Robison
: Harvard University
: Department of Cellular & Developmental Biology
: Department of Genetics / HHMI
: 
: robison@biosun.harvard.edu 
: 

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