Entomopathogenic fungal infection (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) affects water relations of the german cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae)

A natural fungal infection of a sylvatic cockroach with Metarhizium blattodeae sp. nov., a member of the M. flavoviride species complex

“…The cockroach fungi noted by Roth & Willis (1960) that cause diseases of insects include ectoparasitic ascomycetes (Herpomyces species: Laboulbeniales) and the cordycipitoid fungi now classified as Ophiocordyceps amazonica and Ophiocordyceps blattae (Hypocreales: Ophiocordycipitaceae), as well as a few poorly supported reports of Metarhizium. Archbold et al (1987) and Appel et al (1987) studied an entomopathogenic yeast affecting the German cockroach, B. germanica. One of the authors (RAH) is aware of an unpublished finding in the early 1980's of an entomophthoralean fungus, probably Batkoa species based on the globose shape of the conidia, affecting cockroaches in a grain field near the Rothamsted Experimental Station in the United Kingdom.…”

A natural fungal infection of a sylvatic cockroach with Metarhizium blattodeae sp. nov., a member of the M. flavoviride species complex

“…The cockroach fungi noted by Roth & Willis (1960) that cause diseases of insects include ectoparasitic ascomycetes (Herpomyces species: Laboulbeniales) and the cordycipitoid fungi now classified as Ophiocordyceps amazonica and Ophiocordyceps blattae (Hypocreales: Ophiocordycipitaceae), as well as a few poorly supported reports of Metarhizium. Archbold et al (1987) and Appel et al (1987) studied an entomopathogenic yeast affecting the German cockroach, B. germanica. One of the authors (RAH) is aware of an unpublished finding in the early 1980's of an entomophthoralean fungus, probably Batkoa species based on the globose shape of the conidia, affecting cockroaches in a grain field near the Rothamsted Experimental Station in the United Kingdom.…”

A natural fungal infection of a sylvatic cockroach with Metarhizium blattodeae sp. nov., a member of the M. flavoviride species complex

“…The cockroach fungi noted by Roth & Willis (1960) that cause diseases of insects include ectoparasitic ascomycetes (Herpomyces species: Laboulbeniales) and the cordycipitoid fungi now classified as Ophiocordyceps amazonica and Ophiocordyceps blattae (Hypocreales: Ophiocordycipitaceae), as well as a few poorly supported reports of Metarhizium. Archbold et al (1987) and Appel et al (1987) studied an entomopathogenic yeast affecting the German cockroach, B. germanica. One of the authors (RAH) is aware of an unpublished finding in the early 1980's of an entomophthoralean fungus, probably Batkoa species based on the globose shape of the conidia, affecting cockroaches in a grain field near the Rothamsted Experimental Station in the United Kingdom.…”

A natural fungal infection of a sylvatic cockroach with Metarhizium blattodeae sp. nov., a member of the M. flavoviride species complex

“…The cockroach fungi noted by Roth & Willis (1960) that cause diseases of insects include ectoparasitic ascomycetes (Herpomyces species: Laboulbeniales) and the cordycipitoid fungi now classified as Ophiocordyceps amazonica and Ophiocordyceps blattae (Hypocreales: Ophiocordycipitaceae), as well as a few poorly supported reports of Metarhizium. Archbold et al (1987) and Appel et al (1987) studied an entomopathogenic yeast affecting the German cockroach, B. germanica. One of the authors (RAH) is aware of an unpublished finding in the early 1980's of an entomophthoralean fungus, probably Batkoa species based on the globose shape of the conidia, affecting cockroaches in a grain field near the Rothamsted Experimental Station in the United Kingdom.…”