Laboulbenia formicarum (ascomycota, laboulbeniales) reaches the Mediterranean

J. A. Herraiz; X. Espadaler

Laboulbenia formicarum (ascomycota, laboulbeniales) reaches the Mediterranean

J. A. Herraiz, X. Espadaler

Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology

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Abstract

Laboulbeniales (Fungi) are an infrequent find when growing on ants. We report a new host (Lasius neglectus) for Laboulbenia formicarum, which is also a new mycological addition for continental Europe. Heavily infested ants were foraging normally on Tamarix gallica (salt cedar trees) planted along a seaside walk in North-East Spain. The infestation is spatially much extended (540 m), probably because of the supercolonial social structure of the host ant. Workers of eleven additional ant species from the same locality were collected but none were infested.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	449-455
Journal	Sociobiology
Volume	50
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2007

Keywords

Laboulbenia formicarum
Lasius neglectus
Supercolony

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Laboulbenia formicarum (ascomycota, laboulbeniales) reaches the Mediterranean

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