Rickia circopis Thaxter, Proceedings

Rossi, Walter & Leonardi, Marco, 2018, New species and new records of Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) from Sierra Leone, Phytotaxa 358 (2), pp. 91-116 : 109

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.358.2.1

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scientific name

Rickia circopis Thaxter, Proceedings
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Rickia circopis Thaxter, Proceedings View in CoL of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52: 45, 1916.

Known distribution. Described on Circopis philippinensis Grouvelle ( Coleoptera , Nitidulidae ) from Cameroon and never reported again.

New record from Sierra Leone. Northern Province, near Bumbuna, along the road to Binkolo, 14.XII.1992, W. Rossi , on a few specimens of C. philippinensis collected on flowers of Dissotis sp. ( Melastomataceae ).

Remarks. In the original description the fungus is said to be almost hyaline, but in the thalli from Sierra Leone the perithecium turns to reddish brown with age.

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Laboulbeniomycetes

Order

Laboulbeniales

Family

Laboulbeniaceae

Genus

Rickia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Diopsidae

Genus

Circopis

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