ENTOMOPHTHORALES (an order of entomophagous fungi) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:
Subtaxon | Rank | Featured subtaxa |
No of interactions |
No of references |
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Family | 5 subtaxa | 9 trophisms | 8 references | ||||
Species | 1 trophisms | ||||||
Family | 39 subtaxa | 73 trophisms | 22 references | ||||
Family | 3 subtaxa | 3 trophisms | |||||
Genus | 3 subtaxa | 3 trophisms |
Order | ENTOMOPHTHORALES (an order of entomophagous fungi) |
Class | ZYGOMYCETES (pin moulds) |
Phylum | ZYGOMYCOTA (pin moulds) |
Kingdom | FUNGI (true fungi) |
Domain | Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
Life | BIOTA (living things) |
NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ENTOMOPHTHORALES (an order of entomophagous fungi) |
Handling & Magnification | Author | Year | Title | Source |
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Samson, R.A., Evans, H.C. & Latgé, J-P. | 1988 | Atlas of Entomopathogenic Fungi | 187pp, Springer-Verlag, Berlin | |
Waterhouse, G.M. & Brady, B.L. | 1982 | Key to the Species of Entomophthora sensu lato | Bull. Br. mycol Soc. 16, 113-143, 1982 Bull. Br. mycol. Soc. 16 (2): 113-143. | |
Waterhouse, G.M. | 1975 | *** Key to Entomophthora ***(Superseded) | Bull. Br. mycol. Soc. Vol 9 (1). | |
Aquatic Forms | ||||
Sparrow, F.K. | 1960 | Aquatic Phycomycetes | 2nd revised edition edition, 1187pp, University of Michigan Press |
ENTOMOPHTHORALES (an order of entomophagous fungi) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
Author | Year | Title | Source |
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Wilding, N. | 1983 | Entomophthorales foray: 10 - 14 September 1982, Exeter University and Norwich | Bull. Br. mycol. Soc. Vol 17 (1): 47-49. |
Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to ENTOMOPHTHORALES (an order of entomophagous fungi):
BioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 277 images of ENTOMOPHTHORALES (an order of entomophagous fungi) |
Infected insects die during summer and autumn in conspicuous positions: on plant stems and even windows. They can be found on the undersides of smooth leaves on trees where good numbers can be easily found, or, more traditionally, by searching on damp rocks etc, eg beside water.
Slide preps from small samples of the infection often fail to show the ripe sporangia necessary for identification - they are surprisingly efficiently ejected - but they can sometimes be sampled from hairs on the insect or even the substrate. With fresh specimens, adding a small leaf to maintain humidity and leaving overnight in a tube or covered on a slide may reward you with a halo of sporangia the following morning.
The sporangia stain well in lactophenol cotton blue.
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