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Mycologia apologizes to Mycological Research. We unintentionally republished a figure, without acknowledgement, that already had been published in Mycological Research. The offending image is FIG. 10 in M. Lutz, R. Bauer, D. Bergerow, R. Oberwinkler and R. Triebel. 2004. Tuberculina: Rust relatives attack rusts. Mycologia 96(3):614–626. The same, but inverted, image appeared as FIG. 2 of Lutz et al: Tuberculina-Thantophytum/Rhizoctonia crocer-Helicobasidium: a unique mycoparasitic-phytoparasitic life strategy. Mycological Research 108: 227–238. The publication of the same information in two places without acknowledgement is wrong. The editors of Mycologia regret our inadvertent breach of copyright agreement, and we have informed the authors that they should use proper acknowledgments in the future. We thank David McLaughlin for noticing the identical but inverted images.
Due to a failure in communication, the original rather than revised manuscript of "Stigmatomyces from New Zealand and New Caledonia: new records, new species and two new host families" by M. Hughes, A. Weir, B. Gillen, and W. Rossi, Mycolgia 96(4):834–844 was printed. Revised information missing from published paper is provided below.
Key words
Page 834. Key words should include: biogeography, fungal distributions, mycogeography
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Page 834. The last sentence should read: Abbreviations for parts of the thallus follow Tavares (1985).
FIGS. 1–6.
Page 835. The figure captions should include: an = antheridia, fo = foot, per = perithecium, I = basal cell of mature thallus, II = suprabasal cell of mature thallus, III = stalk cell of appendage, VI = stalk cell of perithecium.
TAXONOMY
Page 836. The third sentence in Commentary should read: The appendages of both species are structurally similar to Stigmatomyces divaricatus Thaxt. (Thaxter 1931, Plate XXII, FIGS. 23–24) from Cameroon on Borborus aptus Curran, and to a lesser extent, other species described by Thaxter on "Borboridae": Stigmatomyces borbori Thaxt. (Thaxter 1931, Plate XXIII, FIG. 15), S. borboridinus Thaxt. (Thaxter 1931, Plate XXIII, FIGS. 16–17), S. divergatus Thaxt. (Thaxter 1931, Plate XXIII, FIGS. 18–19), and S. grenadinus Thaxt. (Thaxter 1931, Plate XXII, FIGS. 4–6).
Page 836. The fifth sentence should include a reference to (FIGS. 18–19).
Page 838. The last sentence under Known distribution and hosts of Stigmatomyces rugsosus should read: P. metallica is endemic to New Zealand (Trevor Cros-by pers comm). The other recorded host, P. cf. flavimana, is probably an undescribed endemic species.
Page 838. The last sentence under Known distribution and hosts of Stigmatomyces purpureus should read: S. subvittata is endemic but S. nitidithorax is adventive (Trevor Crosby pers comm).
Page 841. The last sentence under Known distribution and hosts of Stigmatomyces ephydrae should read: Both hosts from New Zealand are endemic (Trevor Crosby pers comm).
Page 841. The last sentence under Known distribution and hosts of Stigmatomyces crassicollis should read: P. maculifrons has been introduced to New Zealand (Trevor Crosby pers comm).
Page 842. The last sentence under Known distribution and hosts of Stigmatomyces hydrelliae should read: H. velutinifrons is endemic, but H. enderbii may be introduced (Trevor Crosby pers comm).
Page 842. The last sentence under Known distribution and hosts of Stigmatomyces limosinae should read: R. fuscipennis has a cosmopolitan distribution but may have been introduced to New Zealand.
Page 843. The last sentence under Known distribution and hosts of Stigmatomyces ilytheae should read: Z. invenatus is adventive in New Zealand (Trevor Crosby pers comm).
DISCUSSION
Stigmatomyces australis and Stigmatomyces baeopteri are the first species of Laboulbeniales to be recorded from Coelopidae and Australimyzidae. Specimens of S. australis on Australimyza (Australimyzidae) are slightly darker in color and have shorter appendages than those on Icaridion (Coelopidae), but such characters are not clear indicators of phylogenetic separation. Two families usually do not serve as hosts for one species of Laboulbeniales. Further collections will help to elucidate whether specimens on Australimyza should be segregated as a separate species. Coelopid hosts for S. australis and S. baeopteri are clumped in three of the four tribes within subfamily Coelopinae. Host and geographic ranges for S. australis and S. baeopteri probably will expand to other species within known host genera in the coming years as more collections are made and more regions (such as Macquarie I., Australia) are investigated.
Unidentified species of Stigmatomyces have been reported incidentally on five other species of Coelopidae, all from Australia: A. blancheae, Gluma keyzeri McAlpine, G. musgravei McAlpine, G. nitida Mc-Alpine, and Coelopella popeae McAlpine (McAlpine 1991). Lopa convexa McAlpine (subfamily Lopinae) and five other genera in Coelopinae are not known to be infected. Where Stigmatomyces have been found in Australia and New Zealand, 50% or more of the species within a genus serve as hosts. Approximately 40 species of Coelopidae are known worldwide, about half of which occur in the Australasian region. Species of Stigmatomyces are unknown from coelopids in other areas such as tropical Africa and arctic regions. In the former case, this may reflect a lack of study rather than a restriction to Australasia.
Without molecular phylogenetic studies, it is impossible to know whether most of the other species of New Zealand Stigmatomyces are native. The generic associations for species on Ephydridae and Sphaero-ceridae remain constant, but species occur on a mixture of endemic and adventive hosts. It is possible that native populations of Stigmatomyces have been indirectly transferred to introduced hosts, that non-native fungi have been spread from adventive to endemic hosts, or that some species are native with adventive additions to their populations. S. purpureus and S. hydrelliae both occur on endemic and adventive hosts in New Zealand. S. limosinae, S. crassicollis and S. ilytheae all occur on hosts which are adventive (Z. invenatus, P. maculifrons) or cosmopolitan but possibly adventive (R. fuscipennis). Only S. spiralis (on Parahyadina) and S. ephydrae (on Ephydrella) have undergone host shifts to other genera. These two fungus species are presumed to be native, but future collections of infected adventive hosts cannot be ruled out because the collection of New Zealand Laboulbeniales is still at an early stage. Likewise, S. rugosus is presumed native, based on host determinations. Fannia canicularis (L.) (Faniidae) was introduced by humans (Trevor Crosby personal communication) and is the likely host for S. ceratophorus reported here.
The limits of certain species discussed here (S. crassicollis, S. limosinae and the two forms of S. australis) are somewhat confused. Detailed phylogenetic studies of the fungi and their hosts throughout their range would do much to clarify our understanding of species concepts in the genus and would provide more information on host shifts and co-evolution within Laboulbeniales.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Page 843. We thank Trevor Crosby for information regarding New Zealand ephyrids.
LITERATURE CITED
Page 844. Maire (1920) should be removed.
Page 844. Tavares, II. 1985. Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycetes). Mycol Mem 9:1–627.
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