A New Species of Laboulbenia (Ascomycota) Parasitic on an African Fly (Diptera: Curtonotidae), with a Brief Review of Diptera-Associated Species of the Genus

Walter Rossi; Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs

doi:10.5733/afin.052.0111

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1 June 2011 A New Species of Laboulbenia (Ascomycota) Parasitic on an African Fly (Diptera: Curtonotidae), with a Brief Review of Diptera-Associated Species of the Genus

Walter Rossi, Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs

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African Invertebrates, 52(1):211-216 (2011). https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.052.0111

Abstract

A new parasitic fungus, Laboulbenia curtonoti sp. n., associated with the endemic Madagascan fly Curtonotum balachowskyi Tsacas (Diptera: Curtonotidae), is described and figured. The new species is one of the very few Laboulbeniales which penetrate the insect's cuticle by means of more-or-less developed rhizoids. A brief review of the 23 species of the genus Laboulbenia associated with Diptera is presented in a tabulated form.

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Walter Rossi and Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs "A New Species of Laboulbenia (Ascomycota) Parasitic on an African Fly (Diptera: Curtonotidae), with a Brief Review of Diptera-Associated Species of the Genus," African Invertebrates 52(1), 211-216, (1 June 2011). https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.052.0111

Published: 1 June 2011

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