Arthropod-pathogenic Entomophthorales from Switzerland. III. First additions

Keller S. (2007) Arthropod-pathogenic Entomophthorales from Switzerland. III. First additions.

Sydowia 59 (1): 75 - 113.

Twenty-nine species of arthropod-pathogenic Entomophthorales new to Switzerland are described. Nine are described as new species, namely Batkoa hydrophila from Plecoptera, Conidiobolus caecilius from Psocoptera, Entomophaga antochae from Limoniidae (Diptera), E. thuricensis from Cicadellidae (Homoptera), Erynia fluvialis from midges (Diptera), E. tumefacta from Muscidae (Diptera), Eryniopsis rhagonidis from Rhagionidae (Diptera), Pandora longissima from Limoniidae (Diptera) and Strongwellsea pratensis from Muscidae (Diptera). Pandora americana, P. sciarae, Zoophthora aphrophorae and Z. rhagonycharum are new combinations. Eleven species are first records since the original description. The list of species recorded from Switzerland amounts to 90 species representing 38€% of the world-wide known species of arthropod-pathogenic Entomophthorales.