Herpomyces ectobiae Thaxt.

Santamaria, Sergi & Pedersen, Jan, 2021, Laboulbeniomycetes (Fungi, Ascomycota) of Denmark, European Journal of Taxonomy 781, pp. 1-425 : 21-22

Herpomyces ectobiae Thaxt.

MB#200204

Fig. 1A

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 38: 20 ( Thaxter 1902). –

Type: [Not designated] [Ind. loc.] “ On Ectobia Germanica Scudd. , Cambridge, Mr. Bullard. On Ectobia sp. , Zanzibar; Mus. Comp. Zoöl., No. 1357; St. Kitts, West Indies; Mus. Comp. Zoöl., No. 1361”; FH .

Diagnostic features

Female thalli prostrate. Shield absent. Perithecium with an inflated venter, gradually tapering towards a well-distinguished long and narrow, strongly arcuate neck, and a truncate, bent apex. [Detailed descriptions: Thaxter 1908; Tavares 1980; Majewski & Sugiyama 1985; Majewski 1994b; De Kesel 2001; Santamaria 2003]

Distribution and hosts

Widely distributed with its synanthropic host, Blattella germanica (as Ectobia germanica or Phyllodromica germanica in old literature) ( Blattodea , Blattidae ). Reported from several countries in Europe ( France, Poland, Spain, Belgium), Africa ( Zanzibar), Asia ( Burma, India, Japan, Philippines) and America ( Argentina, Chile, USA, Saint Kitts and Nevis) ( Santamaria et al. 1991; Majewski 2008). Recently reported from Bulgaria ( Rossi et al. 2019a), Hungary ( Pfliegler et al. 2018), and USA ( Haelewaters et al. 2019b).

Collections examined from Denmark

On Blattella germanica (Linnaeus, 1767) ( Blattodea Blattidae )

DENMARK – Nordøstsjaelland (NEZ) • København ; 55°41.332′ N, 12°33.762′ E; UB47; 23 Sep. 1943; N. Wolff DrY0026; K. Th. Holst det.; ZMUC C-F-124040 . – Nordvestjylland (NWJ) • Thisted ; 56°57.279′ N, 8°41.599′ E; MJ81; E. Petersen Dry0027 ; K. Th. Holst det.; ZMUC C-F-124041 .

Remarks

First record from Denmark. Although the Danish material is not in perfect condition, it is perfectly identifiable ( Fig. 1A ).

Figures

Fig. 1. Herpomyces spp. A. H. ectobiae Thaxt.; mature thallus. – B. H. periplanetae Thaxt.; mature thallus showing the distal acute tooth-like outgrowth on the perithecium (arrow), and shield (sh). – C. H. stylopygae Speg.; mature thallus showing the distal acute tooth-like outgrowth on the perithecium (arrow), and shield (sh). Scale bars: A = 50 µm; B–C = 100 µm. Photographs from slides ZMUC C-F- 124041 (A), ZMUC C-F-123751 (B), and ZMUC C-F-124039 (C).