TY - JOUR

T1 - Ascosphaera callicarpa, a new species of bee-loving fungus, with a key to the Genus for Europe.

AU - Wynns, Anja Amtoft

AU - Eilenberg, Jørgen

AU - Jensen, Annette Bruun

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - We studied the bee specialist fungus Ascosphaera in wild solitary bees to investigate the diversity of the genus in nature and the ecology of these fungi with their bee hosts. A new morphologically distinctive species was discovered which also has a unique nrITS sequence. This new species, here named Ascosphaera callicarpa, is common on the larval feces of the solitary bee Chelostoma florisomne which nests in the Phragmites reeds of thatched roofs in Europe. Because collections of Ascosphaera from wild bees are scarce and because little is known about the ecology and distribution of the majority of the species in the genus, a key to the species thus far reported for Europe is included.

AB - We studied the bee specialist fungus Ascosphaera in wild solitary bees to investigate the diversity of the genus in nature and the ecology of these fungi with their bee hosts. A new morphologically distinctive species was discovered which also has a unique nrITS sequence. This new species, here named Ascosphaera callicarpa, is common on the larval feces of the solitary bee Chelostoma florisomne which nests in the Phragmites reeds of thatched roofs in Europe. Because collections of Ascosphaera from wild bees are scarce and because little is known about the ecology and distribution of the majority of the species in the genus, a key to the species thus far reported for Europe is included.

U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0073419

DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0073419

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 24086280

JO - PLoS ONE

JF - PLoS ONE

SN - 1932-6203

M1 - e73419

ER -