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Daphnephila

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Daphnephila
Leaf galls caused by Daphnephila urnicola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily: Cecidomyiinae
Supertribe: Asphondyliidi
Tribe: Asphondyliini
Genus: Daphnephila
Kieffer, 1905[1]
Species

Daphnephila is a genus of gall midge that appears in the Palearctic and Oriental biogeographic realms.[5] Daphnephila species create leaf and stem galls on species of laurel plants, particularly in Machilus.[5] Based on analysis on sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, it has been suggested that in this genus, the stem-galling habit is a more ancestral state as opposed to the leaf-galling habit.[3]

Daphnephila was first described in 1905 by French entomologist Jean-Jacques Kieffer.[1] It contains at least nine described species from India, Japan, and Taiwan, and many more undescribed species are known.[2] The genus appears to have originated tropically and dispersed to Japan through Taiwan.[3]

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  • Pan, Liang-Yu, et al. "Is a Gall an Extended Phenotype of the Inducing Insect? A Comparative Study of Selected Morphological and Physiological Traits of Leaf and Stem Galls on Machilus thunbergii (Lauraceae) Induced by Five Species of Daphnephila (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Northeastern Taiwan."Zoological Science 32.3 (2015): 314-321.
  • Chiang, Tung-Chyuan, and 江東權. "Biosystematics of the galling midge Daphnephila (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on Machilus spp.(Lauraceae) in Taiwan." (2012).
  • Chao, Jo-Fan, and Gwo-Ing Liao. "Histocytological aspects of four types of ambrosia galls on Machilus zuihoensis Hayata (Lauraceae)." Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 208.3 (2013): 157–164.