Daphnephila stenocalia explained

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]

Further reading

• Huang . Meng-Yuan . etal . 2014 . Herbivorous insects alter the chlorophyll metabolism of galls on host plants . Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology . 17 . 3. 431–434 . 10.1016/j.aspen.2014.04.004 .
• Pan . Liang-Yu . etal . 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 . 10.2108/zs140244 . 26003988 . 207285754 .
• Huang . Meng-Yuan . etal . 2014 . Leaf‐derived cecidomyiid galls are sinks in Machilus thunbergii (Lauraceae) leaves . Physiologia Plantarum . 152 . 3. 475–485 . 10.1111/ppl.12186 . 24621096 .

External links

• • ADW

Notes and References

1. Tokuda. Makoto. Yang. Man-Miao. Yukawa. Junichi. 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. 2008. 533–545. 0289-0003. 10.2108/zsj.25.533. 18558807. 32370318.