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Hesperomyces virescens (Fungi,Ascomycota, Laboulbeniales) attacking Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera,Coccinellidae) in its native range |
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| Authors: | Haelewaters Danny Richard F Comont Serena Y Zhao Donald H Pfister |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA 2. NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, OX10 8BB, Oxfordshire, UK 3. Kraus Natural Science Building, University of Michigan, 830 North University, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA |
| Abstract: | This study intended to find data on obligate ectoparasitic Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycota) on Chinese Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). After having screened over four thousand dried specimens of H. axyridis and close relatives, we present the first (historical) record of Chinese H. axyridis infected with Hesperomyces virescens. We suggest that H. virescens is a historically globally distributed species and hypothesize that (native) infection was lost when H. axyridis was introduced in North America. |
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