LEK behaviour, or the use of courting territories, is well known in the patterned wing, Hawaiian species of the subgenus Drosophila, but not elsewhere in the genus1. Australian Drosophila comprise a major adaptive radiation in the subgenus Scaptodrosophila, and minor radiations in Hirtodrosophila and Sophophora2,3. We report here on three species of the subgenus Hirtodrosophila, two with patterned wings and one without, that show lek behaviour.