Daphnephila | |
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Leaf galls caused by Daphnephila urnicola | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
Subfamily: | Cecidomyiinae |
Supertribe: | Asphondyliidi |
Tribe: | Asphondyliini |
Genus: | Daphnephila Kieffer, 1905[1] |
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Daphnephila is a genusofgall 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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