1. Female and male (wild-type)
Sex comb on male
No sex comb on female
Dark pigmented spot on
rounded abdomen of male;
male is also usually smaller
than female

2. Dead Dead wild-type male:
note the wings that are straight off from the body, a sign of death

3. Vermilion
Wild
White
Sepia

4. Bar
white-apricot
Lobe

5. Eyeless

6. Dichaete

7. Sepia Eyes (se)
Dumpy wings (dp)

8. Apterous

9. Vestigial wings, white eyes female

10. Curly wings (cy)

11. Forked Bristle

12. ebony

13. Wild type
Vestigial Ebony

14. apterous sepia (ap se) Wild-type fly with wings and red eyes
Mutant fly with no wings and dark brown eyes

15. apterous sepia (ap se) Wild-type female: Wild-type male:
larger than the male, pointed
abdomen, no black spot
Wild-type male:
smaller than the female,
rounded abdomen, black
spot
Two male mutants
with no wings and dark eyes

16. dumpy sepia (dp se)
Two females, mutant on the left, wild-type on the right
Short dumpy wings,
different shape from
wild-type
Note that the mutant also has sepia eyes but in this photo,
it is hard to see the color difference from wild-type

17. ebony vestigial (e vg) This is likely a mutant male based on
small size and what looks like the black
spot on the abdomen, but sex combs
would have to be found to
be certain
Wild-type female
Mutant female:
Note the vestigial (shriveled) wings
And dark body color compared to wild-type

18. sepia (se) Note the different shades of eye color
in sepia mutants; the dark color
comes in with age
so more newly hatched
adults might have a
lighter brown color that can
be mistaken for wild-type red if
you’re not careful

19. vestigial sepia (vg se)
Wild-type female
Two mutant females
Wild-type male:
Note sex comb on
front leg

20. white vestigial (w vg)
Mutant male

21. white vestigial (w vg) Wild-type female Mutant male Wild-type male
Mutant female

22. yellow Bar (y Bar) Wild-type female
Note lighter body color of mutants compared to wild-type
Sex comb on
wild-type male
Bar-shaped eye
Sex comb on mutant male

23. yellow (y) Mutant (lighter colored) female Wild-type male Mutant male
Wild-type female

24. yellow white miniature (y w m)
Mutants, likely
males but need to
Find sex combs to be certain:
Note white eyes, lighter color,
and tiny size
Sex comb on wild-type male
Wild-type female

25. Curly
Scalloped
Wild

26. Dumpy
Vestigial
Apterous

27. Dichaete
Curved