Smittium culisetae Lichtw. 1964

Details

Name scientific

Smittium culisetae Lichtw., Amer. J. Bot. 51 837 (1964)

Preferred name

Zancudomyces culisetae (Lichtw.) Yan Wang, Tretter, Lichtw. & M.M. White 2013

Taxonomy reference

Wang, Y.; Tretter, E.D.; Lichtwardt, R.W.; White, M.M. 2013: Overview of 75 years of Smittium research, establishing a new genus for Smittium culisetae, and prospects for future revisions of the 'Smittium' clade. Mycologia 105(1): 90-111.

Nomenclature

Authors

Lichtw.

Original authors

Lichtw.

Publication place

Lichtwardt, R.W. 1964: Axenic culture of two new species of branched Trichomycetes. American Journal of Botany 51(8): 536-542.

Year published

1964

Publication page

837

Orthography

as 'culesitae'

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Smittium culisetae Lichtw. 1964

Type locality

USA

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Smittium culisetae

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Kickxellomycota

Class

Harpellomycetes

Order

Harpellales

Family

Legeriomycetaceae

Genus

Smittium

Species

culisetae

Descriptions

Williams, M.C.; Lichtwardt, R.W. 1990: Trichomycete gut fungi in New Zealand aquatic insect larvae. Canadian Journal of Botany 68(5): 1045-1056.

Smittium culisetae Lichtw. 1964

Notes

This trichomycete species normally inhabits the hindguts of mosquito larvae, like S. culicis, but occasionally is found in the larvae of blackflies, chironomids, and ceratopogonids (biting midges). Its known distribution, in addition to North and Central America and Europe, includes Australia and islands of Japan and Hawaii. We found it but once in New Zealand, on North Island, in Culex pervigilans larvae (Diptera, Culicidae) collected from a dog's drinking bowl by Beverle G. Bennett (site 28).