Day8: Lordiphosa andalusiaca—Our first #Advent species not in #Drosophila: a distinctive #Fly with a striking colour #polymorphism (https://brill.com/view/journals/anz/17/2/article-p275_3.xml - ours is a dark one). Lordiphosa like rotting plants http://www.drosophila.jp/jdd/class/030704/03070441.pdf and some species have sex combs https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14564 . It gives us two lessons in systematics: [1] #Drosophilid #Taxonomy doesn’t match #Phylogeny https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/13/8/evab179/6337980 ; [2] Do not let people play word games with your (sub)genera... cf. Phloridosa & Siphlodora

Tomorrow! A #Drosophilid #Science #Advent of #UK #Flies with #MacroPhotography, #NaturalHistory and #Entomology facts. Pre-advent:
‘The’ fly, D. melanogaster: winner of 6 #NobelPrizes, Dmel is a global human commensal that evolved in South East #Africa in association with #Marula https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218313629. Leaving Africa >20Kya https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/11/3/844/5304659, it reached TH Morgan’s lab in 1908; ~1000 genomes are available https://popfly.uab.cat/ and wild Dmel can look pretty odd: https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-014-0179-y