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Mycologia, 98(2), 2006, pp. 333-352.
© 2006 by The Mycological Society of America

Trichomycete insect symbionts in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and vicinity


Merlin M. White 1

     Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7534

Augusto Siri

     Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores, Calle 2 No 584, (1900) La Plata, Argentina

Robert W. Lichtwardt

     Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7534

Collections of trichomycete symbionts of larval aquatic insects in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and vicinity in the southern Appalachian region of the USA resulted in finding many taxa of Harpellales, including an unusual new monotypic genus, Barbatospora ambicaudata in Simuliidae, and five new species in Thaumaleidae or Chironomidae, Harpellomyces montanus, Smittium lentaquaticum, Sm. minutisporum, Stachylina gravicaudata and St. stenospora. In addition a new species of Amoebidium (Amoebidiales), A. appalachense, attached to the anal tubules of bloodworms (Chironomidae) is described. Axenic cultures of three of the new taxa were obtained, plus Sm. culisetae. Fourteen identified species representing 13 genera of previously known Harpellales are recorded from Plecoptera, Ephemeroptera and Diptera, as well as a new Dipteran host record for an unidentified harpellid that was found in a Blephariceridae. Also identified were Paramoebidium corpulentum and many undetermined species of Paramoebidium (Amoebidiales) from four orders of aquatic insect larvae. The occurrence of an Enterobryus species in Diplopoda and another Eccrinales from an aquatic beetle is noted.

Key words: Amoebidiales, Diptera, Ephemeroptera, gut fungi, Harpellales, Plecoptera, southern Appalachians, Trichoptera

1 Corresponding author. E-mail: trichos{at}ku.edu




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