BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Entomophthora coleopterorum Petch, 1932 (an entomophagous fungus)
| Warning: | Identification questionable |
| Date: | 17 July 2007 |
| Location: | Cardigan, Wales |
| Voucher: | 17/07/2007[G] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Infection |
| Record Summary: | Fungal infection on Soldier Beetle on leaf of Hemp Agrimony |
| Associated organism: | on dead abdomen of Rhagonycha fulva |
| Identification Notes: | Shaggy pale brownish filaments descending from abdomen of Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva). Filaments: thin-walled, hyaline, cylindric hyphae 13-18µm diam, with constricted septa, collapsing above. With occasional pollen grains of Hemp Agrimony (which was just coming into flower) subspherical spiny c.23µm diam. with wall 2.5µm thick and acuminate spines ≤3µm tall. Unfortunately, by the time the specimen was examined, it had become covered with a hyaline hyphomycete with small conidia. |
Images etc
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Infected beetle - dorsal view - enlarged | 500 by 380 pixels | ||
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Infected beetle - dorso-lateral view - enlarged | 500 by 316 pixels | ||
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Infected beetle - dorso-lateral view - enlarged | 500 by 334 pixels | ||
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Infected beetle - lateral view - enlarged | 500 by 309 pixels | ||
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Infected beetle - latero-dorsal view - enlarged | 500 by 345 pixels | ||
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Infection - highly enlarged | 500 by 274 pixels | ||
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Basal hyphae - magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Basal hyphae - magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Basal hyphae - outgrowth - magnified | 500 by 380 pixels | ||
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Collapsed hyphae with pollen grains of Hemp Agrimony - magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Collapsed hyphae with pollen grains of Hemp Agrimony - magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Collapsed hyphae with pollen grains of Hemp Agrimony - magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Pollen grain of Hemp Agrimony - magnified | 27 Kb | 341 by 285 pixels |
