Erynia (fungus)

Erynia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Entomophthoromycota
Class: Entomophthoromycetes
Order: Entomophthorales
Family: Entomophthoraceae
Genus: Erynia
(Nowak. ex A. Batko) Remaud. & Hennebert, 1980
Synonyms
  • Erynia Nowak., 1881
  • Zoophthora subgen. Erynia Nowak. ex A. Batko, 1966

Erynia is a genus of fungi within the family of Entomophthoraceae and order Entomophthorales.[1] This has been supported by molecular phylogenetic analysis (Gryganskyi et al. 2012).[2]

The genus name of Erynia was originally named by the Polish scientist Leon Nowakowski in 1881. It was named after the Greek mythological creatures known as the Erinyes or as the Romans called them, the Furies, who were described as spirits that claimed vengeance against a crime. It could be classed as an insect pest feeding on a plant, being a specific crime for which the fungus would kill the insect, thus exacting vengeance.[3]

Distribution

It has a cosmopolitan distribution (scattered worldwide).[4] Including Switzerland.[5]

Hosts

Species Erynia conica infects two types of mosquitos; Aedes aegypti and Culex restuans.[6]

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;[7]

Former species; (all family Entomophthoraceae)[7]

References

  1. ^ 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): 34. doi:10.1186/s43008-021-00084-w. PMC 8588673. PMID 34763728.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Nowakowski, L. 1881. Dziennik Trzeciego Zjazdu lekarzy i przyrodników polskich, Kraków. Sekcyja Botaniczno-Zoologíczna, 6, 67-68.
  4. ^ "Erynia (Nowak. ex A.Batko) Remaud. & Hennebert". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  5. ^ Keller, Siegfried (1991). "Arthropod pathogenic Entomophthorales of Switzerland. II. Erynia, Eryniopsis, Neozygites, Zoophthora and Tarichium". Sydowia. 43: 39–122.
  6. ^ Cuebas-Incle, E. L. (December 1992). "Infection of adult mosquitoes by the entomopathogenic fungus Erynia conica (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae)". J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 8 (4): 367–71. PMID 1474381.
  7. ^ a b "Erynia - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 31 December 2022.