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Three Harpellales that live in one species of aquatic chironomid larva

Authors: Lichtwardt, R. W.; Williams, M. C.
Year: 1999
Journal: Mycologia, Vol. 91(2), pp. 396-399
Publisher: UNKNOWN
DOI: 10.1080/00275514.1999.12061030
Keywords: AQUATIC BIOLOGY, AQUATIC MICROORGANISMS, CHIRONOMIDAE, DIPTERA, INSECT ECOLOGY, RMBL

Abstract

Two new species of harpellid gut fungi, Smittium fecundum and Stachylina robusta, were found living in larvae of Psectrocladius sp. (Diptera: Chironomidae) in a high-altitude kettle pond in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. A third species of Harpellales, Smittium mucronatum, previously known only from Psectrocladius sordidellus in southern France, was found co-inhabiting the hindguts of the Colorado Psectrocladius larvae. Several axenic isolates of S. fecundum were obtained.

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