Abstract
Twenty species of the Laboulbeniales parasitic on beetles (Coleoptera) are reported for the first time from Ecuador. These are: Acompsomyces corticariae Thaxt., Cantharomyces robustus T. Majewski, Ceratomyces cladophorus Thaxt., Compsomyces palamini Thaxt., Corethromyces piesticola Thaxt., Diaphoromyces zirophori Thaxt., Dimeromyces unguipes Thaxt., Dioicomyces anthici Thaxt., Euzodiomyces lathrobii Thaxt., Hesperomyces virescens Thaxt., Histeridomyces ramosus Thaxt., Homaromyces epieri R.K. Benjamin, Hydrophilomyces rhynchophorus (Thaxt.) Thaxt., Kleidiomyces hoplandriae Thaxt., Meionomyces mychoceri Thaxt., Peyritschiella furcifera (Thaxt.) I.I. Tav., Scaphidiomyces baeoceri Thaxt., Smeringomyces anomalus (Thaxt.) Thaxt., Stichomyces conosomatis Thaxt., Teratomyces mirificus Thaxt. Two species, Cantharomyces robustus and Meionomyces mychoceri are new for the whole American continent and nine other species are new for South America. New records for the same parasites are also reported from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, French Guyana, Guinea, Honduras, Italy and Sierra Leone. The following synonym is established: Hesperomyces hyperaspidis Thaxt. = H. virescens Thaxt.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 281-289 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Webbia |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 3 Jul 2014 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014 © 2014 Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze.
Funding
The authors wish to thank the entomologists who identified the beetles mentioned in the present paper: Claudio Canepari, Italy (Coccinellidae); Edilson Caron, Brazil (Staphylinidae Piestinae); Liliana A. Fernández, Argentina (Hydrophilidae); Matthew L. Gimmel, USA (Phalacridae), Ivan Löbl, Switzerland (Staphylinidae Scaphidiinae); Gianluca Nardi, Italy (Anthicidae); Alfred Newton, USA (Staphylinidae); Roberto Pace, Italy (Staphylinidae Aleocharinae); Wolfgang H. Rücker, Germany (Latridiidae); Adam Slipinski, Australia (Cerylonidae); Pierpaolo Vienna, Italy (Histeridae). They also thank Giuseppe B. Osella (Italy), Giovanni Ramon (Ecuador), Juan Andres Torres Celi (Ecuador), Adriano Zanetti (Italy) for supplying infected insects; Sergi Santamaria for two new records of Diaphoromyces zirophori and for the photographs of Figures 1 and 2; the Fundacion Otonga for the permit to collect in the Bosque Integral Otonga and in the Reserva Otongachi; the University of L’Aquila for the financial support, through the U.R.I., of field research of M.T.; the Zoological Museum of the PUCE (Quito) for the loan of insects bearing Laboulbeni-ales and its director C. Keil for useful suggestions; the Ministe-rio de Medio Ambiente del Ecuador for the permit to collect entomological material (no. 033-2013-FAU-MAE-DPAO-PNY).
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Adriano Zanetti | |
| Fundacion Otonga | |
| Juan Andres Torres Celi | |
| Ministe-rio de Medio Ambiente del Ecuador | 033-2013-FAU-MAE-DPAO-PNY |
| Sergi Santamaria | |
| University of L’Aquila | |
| Museo de Zoología QCAZ |
Keywords
- Coleoptera
- Ecuador
- Laboulbeniales
- parasitic fungi
- Staphylinidae