New species of Prolixandromyces (Laboulbeniales) from South America

ABSTRACT

Four new species of Prolixandromyces (Laboulbeniales, Ascomycota) found on Veliidae (Heteroptera) from Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela are described and illustrated. These four species, Prolixandromyces anseris, P. tritici, P. blackwelliae, and P. bromelicola, represent the first records of this genus from South America, and their discovery requires emendation of the original generic circumscription. The newly described fungi are compared with known species, and a new key to identification is provided.

KEYWORDS:

• Fungi
• hemipterans
• neotropical
• 4 new taxa
• parasites
• Paravelia
• Stridulivelia

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would also like to thank Lauren Goldmann and Danny Newman for help with photo editing and plate arrangement, and Jesse Czekanski-Moir, David Bullis, Aimee Hudon, and Danny Newman, for help with testing out our key to identification.

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Funding

A.W. would like to thank the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET) Program for financial support that enabled some of this work (grant 0529722).