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

Details

Name scientific

Zancudomyces culisetae (Lichtw.) Yan Wang, Tretter, Lichtw. & M.M. White, Mycologia 105 96 (2013)

Preferred name

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

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Yan Wang, Tretter, Lichtw. & M.M. White

Original authors

Lichtw.

Authors

(Lichtw.) Yan Wang, Tretter, Lichtw. & M.M. White

Publication place

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.

Year published

2013

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Smittium culisetae Lichtw. 1964

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Zancudomyces culisetae

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Kickxellomycota

Class

Harpellomycetes

Order

Harpellales

Genus

Zancudomyces

Species

culisetae

Synonyms

Smittium culisetae Lichtw. 1964

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).