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Daphnephila
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Daphnephila

Daphnephila is a genus of gall midge that appears in the Palearctic and Oriental biogeographic realms. Daphnephila species create leaf and stem galls on species of laurel plants, particularly in Machilus. 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.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Daphnephila urnicola

speciesDaphnephila urnicola

Daphnephila taiwanensis

speciesDaphnephila taiwanensis

Daphnephila truncicola

speciesDaphnephila truncicola

Daphnephila sueyenae

speciesDaphnephila sueyenae

Daphnephila machilicola

speciesDaphnephila machilicola

Daphnephila stenocalia

speciesDaphnephila stenocalia

Daphnephila ornithocephala

speciesDaphnephila ornithocephala

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 856799.