Three new species of Laboulbenia from Roland Thaxter's backlog of slides and a brief review of Laboulbeniales associated with Chrysomelidae

Danny Haelewaters; Walter Rossi

doi:10.3852/14-022

Three new species of Laboulbenia from Roland Thaxter's backlog of slides and a brief review of Laboulbeniales associated with Chrysomelidae

Mycologia. 2015 Jan-Feb;107(1):142-8. doi: 10.3852/14-022. Epub 2014 Sep 17.

Authors

Danny Haelewaters¹, Walter Rossi²

Affiliations

¹ Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 dhaelewaters@fas.harvard.edu.
² Sect. Environmental Sciences, Dept. MeSVA, University of L'Aquila, 67100 Coppito (AQ), Italy.

PMID: 25232072
DOI: 10.3852/14-022

Abstract

Three new species of Laboulbenia parasitic on Chrysomelidae are described from material mounted by Roland Thaxter (1858-1932). These are L. bilobata on Lema spp. from Brazil and Trinidad; L. longipilis from Cameroon; and L. pfisteri on Ivongius sp. from Madagascar. The following species of Laboulbenia on Chrysomelidae are illustrated for the first time: L. macarthurii, L. minuscula, L. nodostomatis, L. obesa, and L. philippina, all of which were described by Thaxter in 1914. A list of all 69 described Laboulbeniales associated with Chrysomelidae is presented in tabulated form.

Keywords: Ascomycota; Farlow Herbarium; Roland Thaxter; leaf beetles; parasitic fungi; taxonomy.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Ascomycota / classification
Ascomycota / genetics
Ascomycota / isolation & purification*
Ascomycota / physiology
Coleoptera / classification
Coleoptera / microbiology*
Host Specificity
Molecular Sequence Data