AuthorEnghoff, H. & Santamaria, S.
Year2015
TitleInfectious intimacy and contaminated caves-three new species of ectoparasitic fungi (Ascomycota: Laboulbeniales) from blaniulid millipedes (Diplopoda: Julida) and inferences about their transmittal mechanisms
TypePaper
SourceOrganisms, Diversity & Evolution Vol 15: 249-263.
IllustrationsHalf-tone SEM photographs, colour and half-tone photomicrographs and line drawings
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

Troglomyces bilabiatus from Acipes spp., Troglomyces pusillus from Iberoiulus cavernicola and Troglomyces triandrus from Archiboreoiulus palidus.

Labouls on burrowers transmitted during sex, those on cave-dwellers by contaminated surfaces.

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationCurrentTroglomyces triandrus(A Laboulbeniomycete)Fungi: Laboulbeniales: Laboulbeniaceae
CurrentArchiboreoiulus pallidusa spotted snake millipedeAnimalia: Julida: Blaniulidae
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