Daphnephila

Phylum:Arthropoda

Class:Insecta

Order:Diptera

Family:Cecidomyiidae

Daphnephila
Leaf galls caused by Daphnephila urnicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily:	Cecidomyiinae
Supertribe:	Asphondyliidi
Tribe:	Asphondyliini
Genus:	Daphnephila Kieffer, 1905[1]
Species
Daphnephila glandifex Kieffer, 1905 Daphnephila haasi Kieffer, 1905 Daphnephila linderae Kieffer, 1905[2] Daphnephila machilicola Yukawa, 1974[2] Daphnephila ornithocephala Tokuda, Yang & Yukawa, 2008 Daphnephila stenocalia Tokuda, Yang & Yukawa, 2008 Daphnephila sueyenae Tokuda, Yang & Yukawa, 2008 Daphnephila taiwanensis Tokuda, Yang & Yukawa, 2008 Daphnephila truncicola Tokuda, Yang & Yukawa, 2008[3] Daphnephila urnicola Pan et al., 2015[4]

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]

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]