Smittium simulii Lichtw.

Barón, Daniel E. & Valle, Laia Guàrdia, 2018, First record of trichomycetes associated with aquatic insects from Colombian Moorland and Andean forests, Phytotaxa 361 (1), pp. 1-24 : 14

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.361.1.1

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scientific name

Smittium simulii Lichtw.
status

 

Smittium simulii Lichtw. View in CoL , American Journal of Botany 51: 837. 1964. (Figs 53–55)

Specimens examined: — COLOMBIA. SANTANDER: Tona ; Río Dos Aguas , prepared from Simulium sp. Larvae, D. Baron, COL18 About COL –Tr55 .

Comments:—This is a cosmopolitan species and has been found in hindguts of Simuliidae , Chironomidae , Tipulidae and Culicidae ( Lichtwardt et al. 2001, White & Lichtwardt 2004). We got our specimens (COL18) from one infected black fly ( Simulium sp. ) larva. Colombian specimens had trichospores measuring 16–23 × 2.9–3.6 μm, with a median bulge and cylindrical collar 1.3–2.5 μm long. Thallus with a main axis, holdfast about 13 μm diameter. Zygospores not found.

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Zygomycota

Class

Kickxellomycetes

Order

Harpellales

Family

Legeriomycetaceae

Genus

Smittium

Loc

Smittium simulii Lichtw.

Barón, Daniel E. & Valle, Laia Guàrdia 2018
2018
Loc

Smittium simulii

Lichtw. 1964: 837
1964
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