Cantharomyces platystethi Thaxt.

Santamaria, Sergi & Pedersen, Jan, 2021, Laboulbeniomycetes (Fungi, Ascomycota) of Denmark, European Journal of Taxonomy 781, pp. 1-425 : 322-323

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.781.1583

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5829698

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D3878A-B610-FEA6-6704-7893D8AAFCB0

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Felipe

scientific name

Cantharomyces platystethi Thaxt.
status

 

Cantharomyces platystethi Thaxt. View in CoL

MB#175399

Fig. 77G View Fig

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 35: 415 ( Thaxter 1900). –

Type: “ On abdomen of Platystethus cornutus Grav. , British Museum, No. 449, Kilburn , England ”; FH. [United Kingdom]

Diagnostic features

Cells III and the first two of the appendage form a divergent axis in relation to the perithecium and its stalk. Appendage basal cell longer than broad, including in the middle a small, lateral, lens-shaped, antheridium, which doesn’t contact with upper and lower septa ( Fig. 77G View Fig , an). Appendage branched above its second cell. [Detailed descriptions: Thaxter 1908; Santamaria 2003]

Distribution and hosts

Cantharomyces platystethi occurs on different species of Platystethus (Col. Staphylinidae Oxytelinae ) from United Kingdom (type), Morocco ( Maire & Werner 1937), Japan ( Terada 1977), Spain ( Santamaria & Girbal 1987), India ( Kaur & Mukerji 1996a), China ( Zhang et al. 2001), Sweden ( Huggert 2010), Turkey ( Rossi 2016), and Belgium ( De Kesel et al. 2020).

Collections examined from Denmark

On Platystethus cornutus (Gravenhorst, 1802) (Col. Staphylinidae Oxytelinae ) DENMARK – Lolland, Falster, Møn (LFM) • Riserup ; 54°53.732′ N, 11°49.746′ E; PF88; 2 Aug. 1872; coll. unknown Dry0115; det. unknown; ZMUC C-F-124182 GoogleMaps .

On Platystethus nodifrons Mannerheim, 1830 (Col. Staphylinidae Oxytelinae ) DENMARK – Nordøstjylland (NEJ) • Vendsyssel ; no coordinates; Jun. 1872; coll. unknown DrY0116; det. unknown; ZMUC C-F-124183 .

Remarks

First record from Denmark. The Danish thalli are in poor condition although perfectly identifiable; the samples come from two dried beetles from two very old Museum collections (year 1872).

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