Smittium simulii Lichtw.

Barón, Daniel E. & Valle, Laia Guàrdia, 2018, First record of trichomycetes associated with aquatic insects from Colombian Moorland and Andean forests, Phytotaxa 361 (1), pp. 1-24 : 14

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.361.1.1

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scientific name

Smittium simulii Lichtw.
status

 

Smittium simulii Lichtw. View in CoL , American Journal of Botany 51: 837. 1964. (Figs 53–55)

Specimens examined: — COLOMBIA. SANTANDER: Tona ; Río Dos Aguas , prepared from Simulium sp. Larvae, D. Baron, COL18 About COL –Tr55 .

Comments:—This is a cosmopolitan species and has been found in hindguts of Simuliidae , Chironomidae , Tipulidae and Culicidae ( Lichtwardt et al. 2001, White & Lichtwardt 2004). We got our specimens (COL18) from one infected black fly ( Simulium sp. ) larva. Colombian specimens had trichospores measuring 16–23 × 2.9–3.6 μm, with a median bulge and cylindrical collar 1.3–2.5 μm long. Thallus with a main axis, holdfast about 13 μm diameter. Zygospores not found.

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Zygomycota

Class

Kickxellomycetes

Order

Harpellales

Family

Legeriomycetaceae

Genus

Smittium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Simuliidae

Genus

Simulium

Loc

Smittium simulii Lichtw.

Barón, Daniel E. & Valle, Laia Guàrdia 2018
2018
Loc

Smittium simulii

Lichtw. 1964: 837
1964
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