First record of Harpellales, Orphellales (Kickxellomycotina) and Amoebidiales (Mesomycetozoea) from Bulgaria, including a new species of Glotzia
Author
Valle, Laia Guardia
Unitat de Botanica, Dept. Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia. Fac. Biociences. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. 08193 - Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8295-1093
laia.guardia@uab.cat
Author
Stoianova, Desislava
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Sofia, Bulgaria
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8040-7158
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MycoKeys
2020
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.67.52055
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.67.52055
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Legeriomyces ramosus Pouzar, 1972.
Fig. 16
Specimens examined.
Site 2: slide BUL-2-9; Site 11: slides BUL-11-1 (zygo.), BUL-11-2, BUL-11-3.
Notes.
This species was found on the hindgut lining of
Baetidae
hosts (
Baetis rhodani
Pictet,
Baetis melanonyx
(Pictet) and
B. alpinus
(Pictet). The species seems to have a cosmopolitan distribution, at least in the Northern Hemisphere (
Lichtwardt et al. 2001
). In Europe, the species is common, with records from France, where it was originally described under the name of
Genistella ramosa
(
Leger
and Gauthier 1932) (
Pouzar 1972
), from United Kingdom (
Moss 1979
), Switzerland (
Lichtwardt 1986
), Spain (
Valle and Santamaria 2002
), Norway (
White and Lichtwardt 2004
), Sweden (
Lichtwardt 1984
), Portugal (
Valle 2013a
) and Italy (
Valle et al. 2013
).
Legeriomyces ramosus
has been reported also from India (
Misra and Tiwari 2008
), China (
Strongman et al. 2010
), from several localities in USA (
Lichtwardt 1986
) and Canada (
Strongman 2010
). Bulgarian specimens have, as is usual in this species, a broad range of trichospore variability, measuring 30-40
x
7-8.5
µm
, with two appendages differing in length. Zygospores measure 50-61
x
9-12
µm
in our collections (Fig.
16
).
Figures 11-16.
Various species of
Harpellales
.
11-13
Graminella microspora
from
Baetidae
nymphs:
11
thallus overview, with inflated basal cell structures from which propagules arise or are extruded (note: one empty basal cell which has extruded its cellular content, arrow); young zygospores can also be observed (arrowhead)
12
a cluster of basal cells
13
fertile branch with a long series of minute trichospores;
14, 15
Harpella melusinae
from
Simuliidae
larvae:
14
generative cells and allantoids or curved trichospores
15
basal cell and small conic holdfast
16
Legeriomyces ramosus
from
Baetidae
nymphs, zygospores and zygosporophores. Scale bars: 25
μm
in all figures.