Daphnephila sueyenae
Appearance
Daphnephila sueyenae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
Genus: | Daphnephila |
Species: | D. sueyenae
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Binomial name | |
Daphnephila sueyenae Tokuda, Yang & Yukawa, 2008
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Daphnephila sueyenae 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]
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]- "Differential contribution of antioxidants to antioxidative functions in galls evaluated by grey system theory." (2012).
- Huang, Meng-Yuan; et al. (2011). "Chlorophyll fluorescence, spectral properties, and pigment composition of galls on leaves of Machilus thunbergii". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 172 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1086/658157. S2CID 84481534.
- Huang, Meng-Yuan; et al. (2014). "The number of cecidomyiid insect galls affects the photosynthesis of Machilus thunbergii host leaves". Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 17 (2): 151–154. doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2013.12.002.