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Fungi of the genus Sorosporella are little known entomopathogens. Up to now, the fungus was mostly described in eastern Europe and North Amcrica as a pathogen of curculionid beetles or larvae of Noctuidae (e.g. Speare 1920). Recently, Sorosporella-killed grasshoppers were found in Mali (Shah 1993) and, sporadically, in Benin (Shah et al. 1994).
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Welling, M., Zimmermann, G. (1997). Sorosporella sp., a fungal pathogen of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria capito, in Madagascar. In: New Strategies in Locust Control. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9202-5_35
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