Chitonomyces simplex (Thaxt.) Thaxter, Memoirs

Rossi, Walter & Leonardi, Marco, 2018, New species and new records of Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) from Sierra Leone, Phytotaxa 358 (2), pp. 91-116 : 103

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Chitonomyces simplex (Thaxt.) Thaxter, Memoirs
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Chitonomyces simplex (Thaxt.) Thaxter, Memoirs View in CoL of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 12: 292, 1896.

Known distribution. Reported to date from the American continent only ( Brazil, Grenada, Guatemala, Panama, Trinidad, U.S.A.) on various species of Laccophilus ( Haelewaters et al. 2017) .

New record from Sierra Leone. Southern Province, Gola Rainforest National Park, near Sileti Camp, 29.I.2013, W. Rossi , on the distal portion of the right elytra of Laccophilus leonensis .

Remarks. First record for the whole African continent.

Corethromyces rostellatus Thaxter, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 16: 214, 1931 ( Figure 3f View FIGURE 3 )

Known distribution. This “very striking species,” as described by Thaxter (1931), is only known from the type series, which was found in Cameroon on Sepedophilus (as Conosoma ) obesus (Boheman) ( Coleoptera , Staphylinidae ).

New record from Sierra Leone. Western Area, base of Picket Hill, on lignicolous mushrooms, 1.XI.1995, W. Rossi , on the abdominal bristles of a few specimens of Sepedophilus sp.

Remarks. On one of the host insects bearing Correthromyces rostellatus , were also found thalli of C. spectabilis Thaxt. and Stichomyces vesiculifer Thaxt. (see below).

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