jaenimonas jaenimonas jaenimonas is a genus of trypanosomatid parasite that infects mushroom-feeding drosophila, similar to crithidia parasites of bumblebees. jaenimonas drosophilae is the sole representative of this genus. the genus is named in honor of john jaenike, a prominent ecologist and evolutionary biologist whose work on mushroom-feeding flies laid the foundation for studies on mycophagous drosophila. jaenike was also an early proponent of the red queen hypothesis. jaenimonas scientific classification domain: eukaryota clade: diphoda clade: discoba superphylum: discicristata phylum: euglenozoa subphylum: glycomonada class: kinetoplastea subclass: metakinetoplastina order: trypanosomatida family: trypanosomatidae genus: jaenimonashamilton et al. (2015) species j. drosophilae votypka & hamilton 2015