Ascosphaera
| Ascosphaera | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Onygenales |
| Family: | Ascosphaeraceae |
| Genus: | Ascosphaera L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955) |
| Type species | |
| Ascosphaera apis (Maasen ex Claussen) L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955) | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Pericystis Betts (1912)[1] | |
Ascosphaera is a genus of fungi in the family Ascosphaeraceae. It was described in 1955 by mycologists Charles F. Splitoir and Lindsay S. Olive.[2] Members of the genus are insect pathogens. The type species, A. apis, causes chalkbrood disease in honey bees.[3]
Species
- A. acerosa
- A. aggregata
- A. apis
- A. asterophora
- A. atra
- A. callicarpa[4]
- A. celerrima
- A. cinnamomea
- A. duoformis
- A. fimicola
- A. flava
- A. fusiformis
- A. larvis
- A. major
- A. naganensis
- A. osmophila
- A. parasitica
- A. pollenicola
- A. proliperda
- A. scaccaria
- A. solina
- A. subcuticularis
- A. tenax
- A. torchioi
- A. variegata
- A. verrucosa
- A. xerophila
References
- ↑ Betts AD. (1912). "A bee-hive fungus, Pericystis alvei, gen. et sp. nov.". Annals of Botany 26 (3): 795–800.
- ↑ Spiltoir CF, Olive LS. (1955). "A reclassification of the genus Pericystis Betts". Mycologia 47 (2): 238–44. doi:10.2307/3755414.
- ↑ Capinera JL. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. p. 304. ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1.
- ↑ Wynns AA, Jensen AB, Eilenberg J. (2013). "Ascosphaera callicarpa, a new species of bee-loving fungus, with a key to the genus for Europe". PLoS ONE 8 (9). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073419.
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