First Records Of The Recently Described Ectoparasitic Rickia lenoirii Santam. (Ascomycota: Laboulbeniales) In The Carpathian Basin

Authors

  • Ferenc Báthori University of Debrecen
  • Walter P Pfliegler University of Debrecen; Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
  • András Tartally University of Debrecen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.901

Keywords:

Formicidae, harvester ant, Hungary, Messor structor, Romania

Abstract

Rickia lenoirii has been reported in seven localities in the Carpathian Basin, six in Hungary and one in Romania, on Messor structor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) host specimens. This is the first occurrence of this fungus in two new (Pannonian and Continental) biogeographic regions. According to our findings, the northernmost (47°31'33.01"N) known occurrence of R. lenoirii is Ferenc-hegy (Ferenc Hill) in Budapest. These results demonstrate that ant-parasitic Laboulbeniales fungi may have wider distribution areas than previously expected by mycologists and myrmecologists.

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Author Biographies

Ferenc Báthori, University of Debrecen

Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology

Walter P Pfliegler, University of Debrecen; Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)

Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology;

Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)

András Tartally, University of Debrecen

Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology

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2015-12-31

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Báthori, F., Pfliegler, W. P., & Tartally, A. (2015). First Records Of The Recently Described Ectoparasitic Rickia lenoirii Santam. (Ascomycota: Laboulbeniales) In The Carpathian Basin. Sociobiology, 62(4). https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.901

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Vol. 62 No. 4 (2015)

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