Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Authors: | W. Rossi, Weir A. |
Journal: | Mycologia |
Volume: | 103 |
Pagination: | 131-134 |
ISBN Number: | 00275514 (ISSN) |
Keywords: | animal, Animals, Aphaniosoma, article, Ascomycetes, Ascomycota, Asia, Chyromyidae, classification, Diptera, Drosophilidae, Ephydridae, fly, fungus, isolation and purification, Jordan, Laboulbeniales, Laboulbeniomycetes, microbiology, Microscopy, Interference, Milichia pubescens, Milichiidae, Mosillus, new genus, new record, new species, Pakistan, parasites, phase contrast microscopy, Phortica, Stigmatomyces, Stigmatomycetinae, Taiwan, ultrastructure, Yemen |
Abstract: | Four new species of Stigmatomyces (Ascomycota, Laboulbeniomycetes, Stigmatomycetinae) parasitic on flies (Diptera) are described. These are S. aphaniosomae, parasitic on an undescribed species of Aphaniosoma (Chyromyidae) from Jordan; S. deemingii, parasitic on Milichia pubescens (Milichiidae) from Yemen; S. macanus, parasitic on Phortica spp. (Drosophilidae) from Taiwan; and S. mosilli, parasitic on Mosillus subsultans (Ephydridae) from Pakistan. Chyromyidae is a new host family for Laboulbeniales, and S. aphaniosomae is the first of the Laboulbeniales to be reported from Jordan. © 2011 by The Mycological Society of America. |
URL: | http://www.mycologia.org/content/103/1/131.full.pdf |