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Diphymyces I. I. Tav.

  • 1. Unitat de Botànica, Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia, Facultat de Biociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona), Spain.
  • 2. Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 København Ø, Denmark.

Description

Genus Diphymyces I.I.Tav.

MB#25682

Mycologia Memoirs 9: 202 (Tavares 1985). –

Type species: D. appendiculatus (Thaxt.) I.I.Tav.

Brief description

Monoecious. Receptacle three-celled. Cell II connected along its whole length with cell VI, thus separated by a vertical septum one from the other. Primary appendage free, consisting of several superposed cells, ± profusely branched, bearing intercalary antheridia. Perithecium with four cells in each vertical row of outer wall cells; usually with apical and/or subapical outgrowths.

Remarks

The genus consists of 26 species, of which six in Europe, one in Denmark. The most recently described species are D. torresii (Rossi et al. 2020), and D. oryoti (Rossi & Christian 2020). On Col. Leiodidae Cholevinae beetles with the exception of three species that occur on Col. Leiodidae Coloniinae: D. appendiculatus (Thaxt.) I.I.Tav., on Col. Staphylinidae: D. penicillifer A.Weir & W.Rossi, and on Col. Tenebrionidae: undescribed species by Hughes (2008) (see De Kesel & Haelewaters 2019).

Notes

Published as part of Santamaria, Sergi & Pedersen, Jan, 2021, Laboulbeniomycetes (Fungi, Ascomycota) of Denmark, pp. 1-425 in European Journal of Taxonomy 781 on page 234, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.781.1583, http://zenodo.org/record/5828924

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Laboulbeniaceae
Genus
Diphymyces
Kingdom
Fungi
Order
Laboulbeniales
Phylum
Ascomycota
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Tavares I. I. 1985. Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycetes). Mycologia Memoirs 9: 1 - 627.
  • Rossi W. & Christian E. 2020. Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) from Austria and neighbouring areas. Sydowia 72: 149 - 161.
  • Hughes M. 2008. The SYstematics, BiogeographY, and Host Utilization of New Zealand Laboulbeniales (Fungi, AscomYcota). PhD thesis, State University of New York, USA.
  • Haelewaters D., De Kesel A., Gorczak M., Bao K., Gort G., Zhao S. Y. & Pfister D. H. 2019 b. Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) of the Boston Harbor Islands II (and other localities): Species parasitizing Carabidae, and the Laboulbenia flagellata species complex. NorthEastern Naturalist 25 (9): 110 - 149. https: // doi. org / 10.1656 / 045.025. s 906