Daphnephila stenocalia is a species of gall midges first associated with leaf galls on Lauraceae species, particularly Machilus thunbergii in Taiwan. 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. This genus appears to have originated tropically and dispersed to Japan through Taiwan.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
| Genus: | Daphnephila |
| Species: | D. stenocalia
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| Binomial name | |
| Daphnephila stenocalia Tokuda, Yang & Yukawa, 2008
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References
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.
Further reading
edit- Huang, Meng-Yuan; et al. (2014). "Herbivorous insects alter the chlorophyll metabolism of galls on host plants". Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 17 (3): 431–434. doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2014.04.004.
- Pan, Liang-Yu; et al. (2015). "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): 314–321. doi:10.2108/zs140244. PMID 26003988. S2CID 207285754.
- Huang, Meng-Yuan; et al. (2014). "Leaf‐derived cecidomyiid galls are sinks in Machilus thunbergii (Lauraceae) leaves". Physiologia Plantarum. 152 (3): 475–485. doi:10.1111/ppl.12186. PMID 24621096.
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