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Title: A NEW RECORD OF THE ENTOMOPHAGA GRYLLI (FRESENIUS) BATKO SPECIES COMPLEX ON ORTHOPTERA: ACRIDIDAE IN SOUTHERN BAHIA, BRAZIL

Author
item SANCHEZ, S - UNIV ESTAD SANTA CRUZ
item Humber, Richard
item FREITAS, A - UNIV ESTAD SANTA CRUZ
item NUNES, E - UNIV ESTAD SANTA CRUZ

Submitted to: International Coloquim on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/30/2002
Publication Date: 8/15/2002
Citation: SANCHEZ, S.E., HUMBER, R.A., FREITAS, A.L., NUNES, E.F. A NEW RECORD OF THE ENTOMOPHAGA GRYLLI (FRESENIUS) BATKO SPECIES COMPLEX ON ORTHOPTERA: ACRIDIDAE IN SOUTHERN BAHIA, BRAZIL. INTERNATIONAL COLOQUIM ON INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIAL CONTROL. 2002.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: An entomophthoralean fungus (Zygomycotina; Zygomycetes) from the ENTOMOPHAGA GRYLLI species complex has been found and described from Brazil, on populations of RHAMMATOCERUS BRASILIENSIS Bruner, 1904, RHAMMATOCERUS BRUNNERI Giglio Tos, 1895, ABRACRIS DILECTA Walker, 1870, ABRACRIS FLAVOLINEATA De Geer, 1773, and on an unidentified species of grasshopper from the subfamily Ommatolampinae (Acrididae). All of these grasshopper species were attacked by an ENTOMOPHAGA species presumably belonging to the E. GRYLLI species complex; it is impossible to say at this time whether the Brazilian fungus represents collections of a known (described) taxon or a new and undescribed member of this species complex. This new finding of E. GRYLLI is a scientific contribution to the knowledge of the Entomophthorales in Brazil and opens opportunities for further studies since this pathogen causes natural epizootics that, on many occasions, have had significant impacts by the reduction of acridid populations.