Phylum:Zygomycota >> Class: Zygomycetes >> Order: Entomophthorales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Erynia neoaphidis | |||
Author: | Erynia neoaphidis Remaudiere & hennebert, Mycotaxon 11: 307. 1980. |
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Description: | Dead aphids attach to cabbage leaves by ventral rhizoids, covered by mycelia, conidiogenous structures and conidia, pale yellow (3-4A3), greyish yellow (4B-C5), light orange to greyish orange (5A-B4-6). Rhizoids monohyphal, 6.1-12.1 μm wide, basal holdfast, 36.4-54.6 μm in diam., branched, root- or disk-like, sometimes fused forming a laminated layer. Protoplasts and hyphal bodies irregular hyphal-like. Conidiophores branched, sometimes terminally enlarged, 8.8-16.9 μm wide. Primary conidia 17.9-34.9 × 11.9-19.8 μm, L/D=1.32-2.31, elongate, ovoid, ellipsoidal to fusiform, occasionally spherical, papilla distinct. Secondary conidia resembling the primary or more rounded, 17.5-23.8 × 13.5-19.1 μm, L/D=1.16-1.33. Resting spores not observed. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei County, Sanhsia, Taoyuan District Agricultural Improvement Station, on green peach aphids, Myzus persicae Sulzer, Homoptera, Ho.274, 17 Apr 1995; on the same host and location, Ho.279, 28 Apr 1995. L. S. Hiseh. |
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Habitat: | on green peach aphids. | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan, UK, Poland, 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: | newly recorded species. | |||