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- Title
Syspastospora parasitica (Tul.) Cannon & Hawksw. (Ascomycota: Hypocreales), a Parasite of Entomopathogenic Fungi (Beauveria spp.) Attacking Pine Processionary Moth in Bulgaria: New Tritrophic Associations.
- Authors
Georgieva, Margarita; Mirchev, Plamen; Georgiev, Georgi
- Abstract
New tritrophic associations are reported: the hyperparasitic fungus Syspastospora parasitica attacking two Beauveria spp. that had infected larvae and pupae of the pine processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Lepidoptera). Totally, 1475 samples of T. pityocampa were collected from three sites in the Eastern Rhodopes (Fotinovo village - 1120 larvae and pupae, Sarnak village - 117 and Kandilka village - 178) as well as 60 larvae and pupae from the town of Sandanski (SW Bulgaria). The entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria pseudobassiana and B. varroae were isolated from 15.7% of T. pityocampa larvae and pupae. Fruit bodies (perithecia) of S. parasitica appeared on 41.8% of infected by Beauveria spp. specimens of T. pityocampa. Perithecia covered completely the Beaveria mycelium two months after their appearing and stopped the entomopathogenic fungi development.
- Subjects
FUNGI; BEAUVERIA; LARVAE; THAUMETOPOEA; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC fungi
- Publication
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 2020, p97
- ISSN
0324-0770
- Publication type
Article