Genus Diphymyces I.I.Tav.

MB#25682

Mycologia Memoirs 9: 202 (Tavares 1985). –

Type species: D. appendiculatus (Thaxt.) I.I.Tav.

Brief description

Monoecious. Receptacle three-celled. Cell II connected along its whole length with cell VI, thus separated by a vertical septum one from the other. Primary appendage free, consisting of several superposed cells, ± profusely branched, bearing intercalary antheridia. Perithecium with four cells in each vertical row of outer wall cells; usually with apical and/or subapical outgrowths.

Remarks

The genus consists of 26 species, of which six in Europe, one in Denmark. The most recently described species are D. torresii (Rossi et al. 2020), and D. oryoti (Rossi & Christian 2020) . On Col. Leiodidae Cholevinae beetles with the exception of three species that occur on Col. Leiodidae Coloniinae: D. appendiculatus (Thaxt.) I.I.Tav., on Col. Staphylinidae: D. penicillifer A.Weir & W.Rossi, and on Col. Tenebrionidae: undescribed species by Hughes (2008) (see De Kesel & Haelewaters 2019).