Family Drosophilidae Rondani 1856 (fruit fly)
PaleoDB taxon number: 139427
Parent taxon: Ephydroidea according to D. A. Grimaldi and A. H. Kirk-Spriggs 2012
Sister taxa: Camillidae, Campichoetidae, Cryptochetidae, Curtonotidae, Diastatidae, Ephydridae
Subtaxa: Drosophilinae, Steganinae
Ecology: