ENTOMOPHTHORALES G. Winter
(an order of entomophagous fungi)

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Family 2 subtaxa 3 ident. refs
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Family 12 subtaxa 277 images 9 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
OrderENTOMOPHTHORALES (an order of entomophagous fungi)
ClassZYGOMYCETES (pin moulds)
PhylumZYGOMYCOTA (pin moulds)
KingdomFUNGI (true fungi)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Samson, R.A., Evans, H.C. & Latgé, J-P. 1988 Atlas of Entomopathogenic Fungi 187pp, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Waterhouse, G.M. & Brady, B.L. 1982 Key to the Species of Entomophthora sensu lato Bull. Br. mycol Soc. 16, 113-143, 1982 Bull. Br. mycol. Soc. 16 (2): 113-143.
Waterhouse, G.M. 1975 *** Key to Entomophthora ***(Superseded) Bull. Br. mycol. Soc. Vol 9 (1).

Aquatic Forms

Sparrow, F.K. 1960 Aquatic Phycomycetes 2nd revised edition edition, 1187pp, University of Michigan Press

ENTOMOPHTHORALES (an order of entomophagous fungi) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ENTOMOPHTHORALES (an order of entomophagous fungi)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 86 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ENTOMOPHTHORALES (an order of entomophagous fungi)

Infected insects die during summer and autumn in conspicuous positions: on plant stems and even windows. They can be found on the undersides of smooth leaves on trees where good numbers can be easily found, or, more traditionally, by searching on damp rocks etc, eg beside water.

Slide preps from small samples of the infection often fail to show the ripe sporangia necessary for identification - they are surprisingly efficiently ejected - but they can sometimes be sampled from hairs on the insect or even the substrate. With fresh specimens, adding a small leaf to maintain humidity and leaving overnight in a tube or covered on a slide may reward you with a halo of sporangia the following morning.

The sporangia stain well in lactophenol cotton blue.

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