Entomophaga (fungus)

Entomophaga
Entomophaga maimaiga azygospores
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Entomophthoromycota
Class: Entomophthoromycetes
Order: Entomophthorales
Family: Entomophthoraceae
Genus: Entomophaga
A. Batko, 1964 [1]

Entomophaga is a genus of entomopathogenic fungi in the Entomophthoraceae family and also the order Entomophthorales.[2] This has been supported by molecular phylogenetic analysis (Gryganskyi et al. 2012).[3]

Well-known species are Entomophaga grylli and Entomophaga maimaiga, which can infect grasshoppers and gypsy moths respectively.

The genus name of Entomophaga was derived from combining two words in the Greek, entomon means insect and phaga means to eat. The genus was created in 1964 by the Polish mycologist Andrzej Batko (1933 - 1997). He wrote “... to commemorate the international journal Entomophaga devoted to problems of biological control of insect pests.”[1] The journal later ceased publication in 1998 and was replaced by BioControl.

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Batko, A. 1964. Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci., Série des sciences biologiques 12, 323-326
  2. ^ Elya, Carolyn; De Fine Licht, Henrik H. (12 November 2021). "The genus Entomophthora: bringing the insect destroyers into the twenty-first century &". IMA Fungus. 12 (34).
  3. ^ Gryganskyi AP, Humber RA, Smith ME et al (2012) Molecular phylogeny of the Entomophthoromycota. Mol Phylogenet Evol 65:682–694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.026
  4. ^ "Entomophaga - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 31 December 2022.


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