Dixomyces stomonaxi (Thaxt.) I. I. Tavares, Mycologia Memoir

Rossi, Walter & Leonardi, Marco, 2018, New species and new records of Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) from Sierra Leone, Phytotaxa 358 (2), pp. 91-116 : 104

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scientific name	Dixomyces stomonaxi (Thaxt.) I. I. Tavares, Mycologia Memoir
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Dixomyces stomonaxi (Thaxt.) I. I. Tavares, Mycologia Memoir View in CoL 9: 208, 1985.

Known distribution. Parasitic on various species of the genus Coelostomus ( Coleoptera , Carabidae ) from SE Asia; also on C. ebeninus (Klug) from Madagascar ( Terada et al. 2004).

New records from Sierra Leone. Northern Province, between the villages of Sinikoro and Kondembaia in the Loma Mts. area, 3.XII.1984, W. Rossi , on the elytra and pronotum of Coelostomus longulus Bates ; Eastern Province, Tama Forest Reserve, 15–16.V.1991, W. Rossi , on C. complanatus Bates.

Remarks. The new records are the first for continental Africa.