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A new species of Harposporium with two spore types isolated from the larva of a cerambycid beetle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1997

M. SHIMAZU
Affiliation:
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), P.O. Box 16, Tsukuba Norin Kenkyu Danchi-Nai, Ibaraki 305, Japan
S. L. GLOCKLING
Affiliation:
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), P.O. Box 16, Tsukuba Norin Kenkyu Danchi-Nai, Ibaraki 305, Japan
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Abstract

A Paraisaria-like fungus isolated from a larva of a cerambycid beetle, Anopolophora oshimana, produced small obovoid conidia from multi-necked conidiogenous cells arising from synnematous conidiophores. In culture, the fungus produced curved Harposporium-like conidia in addition to obovoid conidia. When introduced into nematode-infested cultures, nematodes were infected after ingesting the curved conidia and infection typical of Harposporium, producing curved conidia from globose conidiogenous cells, resulted. Reinfection of beetle larvae by injection of hyphal bodies from pure culture and by contact with conidia from the original host showed pathogenicity to cerambycid larvae.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The British Mycological Society 1997

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