Laboulbenia morionis Thaxter, Proceedings

Rossi, Walter & Leonardi, Marco, 2018, New species and new records of Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) from Sierra Leone, Phytotaxa 358 (2), pp. 91-116 : 107

Laboulbenia morionis Thaxter, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 28: 169, 1892.

Known distribution. This parasite was described from Mexico and subsequently reported from Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea and Peru ( Thaxter 1908; Balazuc 1982); the host insects are Carabidae Morionini .

New record from Sierra Leone. Southern Province, Tiwai Island, 8–10.I.1989, W. Rossi , on the pronotum of Morion guineense Imhoff.

Remarks. The thalli from Sierra Leone are quite large and can reach the height of 880 μm.

Sugiyama and Panichapol (1984) reported Laboulbenia morionis on Morion sp. from Thailand, but their figure 7E clearly illustrates another species, likely related to L. papuana Thaxt.