Daphnephila

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Daphnephila
Daphnephila urnicola galls.jpg
Leaf galls caused by Daphnephila urnicola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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]

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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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