Genus Rhynchophoromyces Thaxt.

MB#4714

Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 16: 60 (Thaxter 1931). –

Type species: R. rostratus Thaxt.

Brief description

Monoecious. As Autoicomyces, but differing from it by the very elongate and slender perithecial neck.

Remarks

The genus consists of eight species occurring on Hydrophilidae beetles. Two in Europe, one in Denmark. The last described species was R. helophori by Santamaria (1999).