Phylum:Zygomycota >> Class: Zygomycetes >> Order: Entomophthorales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Entomophthora muscae | |||
Author: | Entomophthora muscae (Cohn) Fresenius, Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 14: 883. 1856. |
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Description: | Infected host fixed to bark by proboscis and legs, wings usually spread latero-dorsally, conidiophores penetrating the host cuticle at the intersegmental membrane of abdomen, cephalothorax and pleura, forming white to greyish bands. Rhizoids absent. Hyphal bodies irregular, hyphal-like to subspherical. Conidiophores terminally enlarged, nuclei deeply stained in LAPO, 15-25 in number, with a diameter of 4.0-6.4 μm. Primary conidia 26-30 × 20-24 μm, L/D=1.08-1.43, campanulate, apical point and papilla well developed, bitunicate, with thin peripheral membrane, 14-23 nuclei per conidium (average 17 nuclei), with a diameter of 3.2-6.4 μm. Secondary conidia 20-24 × 18-20 μm, L/D=1.11-1.24, apical point weakly developed. Resting spores not observed. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei City, National Taiwan University campus, on fly, Diptera, Di.51, 9. Mar 1996. I. I. Lee; Taipei City, Youth Park, on fly, Di.26, 27 Mar 1991, I. C. Chen. |
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Habitat: | on fly. | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan, UK, U.S.A. |
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References: | Tzean, SS et al. 1997. |
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Provided: | S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh |
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Note: | common recorded species. | |||