Ascosphaera scaccaria Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan 1988
![SEM pin type mount. Creator: N. Gorter-Smith. © Landcare Research. [Image: UZP]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/UZP/SysPortalThumb)
![Fig. 1. Spore cysts of Ascosphaera scaccaria, in body cavity of a prepupa of Leioproctus spp. © All rights reserved. [Image: MK2]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/MK2/SysPortalThumb)
![Fig. 2. Opened spore cyst of Ascosphaera scaccaria, showing sculptured inner cyst membrane and spore balls. © All rights reserved. [Image: MK3]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/MK3/SysPortalThumb)
![Fig. 3. Spore ball of Ascosphaera scaccaria, showing typical arrangement ofthe bundles of ascospores. © All rights reserved. [Image: MK4]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/MK4/SysPortalThumb)
![Fig. 4. Ascospores of Ascosphaera scaccaria, showing bundles of eight. © All rights reserved. [Image: MK5]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/MK5/SysPortalThumb)
![SEM pin type mount. Creator: N. Gorter-Smith. © Landcare Research. [Image: UZP]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/UZP/SysPortalPreview)
![Fig. 1. Spore cysts of Ascosphaera scaccaria, in body cavity of a prepupa of Leioproctus spp. © All rights reserved. [Image: MK2]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/MK2/SysPortalPreview)
![Fig. 2. Opened spore cyst of Ascosphaera scaccaria, showing sculptured inner cyst membrane and spore balls. © All rights reserved. [Image: MK3]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/MK3/SysPortalPreview)
![Fig. 3. Spore ball of Ascosphaera scaccaria, showing typical arrangement ofthe bundles of ascospores. © All rights reserved. [Image: MK4]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/MK4/SysPortalPreview)
![Fig. 4. Ascospores of Ascosphaera scaccaria, showing bundles of eight. © All rights reserved. [Image: MK5]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/MK5/SysPortalPreview)
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Ascosphaera scaccaria Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan, Austral. Syst. Bot. 1 387 (1988)
Ascosphaera scaccaria Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan 1988
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Nomenclature
Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan
Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan
1988
387
ICN
Ascosphaera scaccaria Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan 1988
NZ holotype
species
Ascosphaera scaccaria
Classification
Descriptions
Ascosphaera scaccaria Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan 1988
Spore cysts black, globose, smooth, brittle membranaceous inner surface finely spotted to confluent verrucose, 80-111-150 µm diam. (Figs 1 and 2). The spherical spore balls measure 19-24-28 µm in diam. (Fig. 3).Ascospores one-celled, hyaline, cylindrical, in bundles of eight, 1.0-1.1-1.3 x 5.0-5.7-6.6 µm (Fig. 4). Length to width ratio 5.2. No conidial state observed.
Ascocarp nigra, globosa, laevia fragilis, 80-111-150 µm diam., membrana exteriore hylina, membrana interiore nigra, subtiliter maculata vel confluenti-verrucosa. Globula sporarum sphaerici 19-24-28 µm diam. Ascosporae unicellulares hyalinae cylindricae, octo fasciculibus 1.0-1.1-1.3 x 5.0-5.7-6.6 µm magna 5.2 plo longiores quam latiores. Status conidialis non observatus.
Holotypus: In larvis prepupisque Leioprocti specierum, cum specie fungali altera consociata ad Birkdale in Nova Zeelandia crescit, 13.i.1983, B. Donovan (PDD, 53796).
Holotypus: In larvis prepupisque Leioprocti specierum, cum specie fungali altera consociata ad Birkdale in Nova Zeelandia crescit, 13.i.1983, B. Donovan (PDD, 53796).
Specimens are deposited at the Insect Pathology Laboratory, University of Adelaide, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Glen Osmond, S.A., Australia, with dried specimens on S.E.M. pin type mounts chosen as holotype and deposited in the herbarium of Plant Diseases Division, DSIR, Mt Albert Research Centre, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand, (PDD, 53797-53801).
Etymology: Scaccaria from the Latin scaccarium, chess board; term referring to the arrangement of ascospore bundles in the peripheral layer of the mature spore ball (Fig. 3).
Etymology: Scaccaria from the Latin scaccarium, chess board; term referring to the arrangement of ascospore bundles in the peripheral layer of the mature spore ball (Fig. 3).
In larvae and prepupae of Leioproctus spp., in association with another fungal species, at Birkdale, New Zealand, 13 Jan. 1983, (PDD, 53796).
Taxonomic concepts
Ascosphaera scaccaria Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan 1988
Ascosphaera scaccaria Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan (1988)
Ascosphaera scaccaria Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan 1988
Ascosphaera scaccaria Pinnock, R.B. Coles & B. Donovan (1988)
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1 January 2000
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