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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Scientific classification 
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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] |
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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]
References
edit- ^ a b Yukawa & Tokuda 2006, p. 635.
- ^ a b c Tokuda & Yukawa 2007, p. 127.
- ^ a b c Tokuda, Yang & Yukawa 2008, p. 535.
- ^ Yang et al. 2015.
- ^ a b Yukawa & Tokuda 2006, p. 636.
Bibliography
edit- Tokuda, Makoto; Yang, Man-Miao; Yukawa, Junichi (2008). "Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogeny of Daphnephila Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Inducing Complex Leaf Galls on Lauraceae, with Descriptions of Five New Species Associated with Machilus thunbergii in Taiwan". Zoological Science. 25 (5): 533–545. doi:10.2108/zsj.25.533. ISSN 0289-0003. PMID 18558807. S2CID 32370318.
- Tokuda, Makoto; Yukawa, Junichi (2007-01-01). "Biogeography and evolution of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) inhabiting broad-leaved evergreen forests in Oriental and Eastern Palearctic regions". Oriental Insects. 41: 121–139. doi:10.1080/00305316.2007.10417502. S2CID 85241125.
- Pan, Liang-Yu; Chiang, Tung-Chuan; Weng, Yu-Chu; Chen, Wen-Neng; Hsiao, Shu-Chuan; Tokuda, Makoto; Tsai, Cheng-Lung; Yang, Man-Miao (2015-05-05). "Taxonomy and biology of a new ambrosia gall midge Daphnephila urnicola sp. nov. (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) inducing urn-shaped leaf galls on two species of Machilus (Lauraceae) in Taiwan". Zootaxa. 3955 (3): 371–388. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3955.3.5. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25947859.
- Yukawa, Junichi; Tokuda, Makoto (2006-07-01). "First Records of Genus Bruggmanniella (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Asphondyliini) from Palaearctic and Oriental Regions, with Descriptions of Two New Species That Induce Stem Galls on Lauraceae in Japan". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 99 (4): 629–637. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2006)99[629:FROGBD]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0013-8746.
Further reading
edit- 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.
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