Eusynaptomyces Thaxt.

Santamaria, Sergi & Pedersen, Jan, 2021, Laboulbeniomycetes (Fungi, Ascomycota) of Denmark, European Journal of Taxonomy 781, pp. 1-425 : 29-30

Genus Eusynaptomyces Thaxt.

MB#1947

Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 16: 340 ( Thaxter 1931). –

Type species: E. borealis Thaxt.

Brief description

Monoecious. As Ceratomyces , but differing from it by the preapical simple or bifurcate horns on the perithecium and by the multicellular lower receptacle consisting of more than five cells.

Remarks

The genus consists of six species on Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera) , of which four in Europe, two in Denmark. The most recently described species is E. cornutus ( Santamaria 2006) .

Key to the Danish species (partially following Majewski 1994b)

1. Receptacle three- to five-celled. Between the claws of anterior tarsi in Enochrus Thomson, 1859 (Col. Hydrophilidae ).................................................................................................. E. enochri Scheloske

– Receptacle consisting of more than 10 cells. On other host locations. On Hydrobius Leach, 1815 (Col. Hydrophilidae )............................................................................... E. hydrobii (T.Majewski) I.I.Tav.