Daeguia is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria).
The name Daeguia derives from: Neo-Latin Daeguia, pertaining to Daegu, the location of the textile dye works from which the type strain of the type species was isolated. The genus contains a single species, D. caeni (Yoon et al. 2008, (type species of the genus) from Latin caeni, of sludge)[1]