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Hesperomyces virescens (Fungi, Ascomycota, Laboulbeniales) attacking Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) in its native range

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Abstract

This study intended to find data on obligate ectoparasitic Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycota) on Chinese Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). After having screened over four thousand dried specimens of H. axyridis and close relatives, we present the first (historical) record of Chinese H. axyridis infected with Hesperomyces virescens. We suggest that H. virescens is a historically globally distributed species and hypothesize that (native) infection was lost when H. axyridis was introduced in North America.

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We wish to thank Piotr Ceryngier and Lidwien Raak-van den Berg for useful comments on the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Haelewaters Danny, Serena Y. Zhao & Donald H. Pfister

  2. NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, OX10 8BB, Oxfordshire, UK

    Richard F. Comont

  3. Kraus Natural Science Building, University of Michigan, 830 North University, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Serena Y. Zhao

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Danny, H., Comont, R.F., Zhao, S.Y. et al. Hesperomyces virescens (Fungi, Ascomycota, Laboulbeniales) attacking Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) in its native range. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 528–532 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-013-0060-1

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