Peyritschiella furcifera I. I. Tav.
Creators: name: Santamaria, Sergi
name: Pedersen, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Laboulbeniomycetes
Laboulbeniales
Laboulbeniaceae
Peyritschiella
Peyritschiella furcifera

description: Peyritschiella furcifera (Thaxt.) I.I.Tav.
MB#105641
Fig. 67A–B
Mycologia Memoirs 9: 270 (Tavares 1985). – Basionym: Dichomyces furcifer Thaxt., Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 28: 184 [MB#142988] (Thaxter 1893, as furciferus, [MB#375051]) [Note: MycoBank gives two registration numbers, one for D. furciferus and the other for D. furcifer]. –
Type: “On abdomen of Philonthus debilis Grav., Massachusetts ”; FH. [USA]
Diagnostic features
Thallus symmetrical, small, up to 160 µm long. Lower tier of cells blackened, almost entirely opaque except for the central area. Middle tier of cells blackened outwards; extending with laterally superposed cells forming strip-like expansions as far as the upper part of the receptacle, right below the base of perithecia. Perithecia two in number; bearing short auricles on the apices. [Detailed descriptions: Thaxter 1896; Sugiyama 1973; Santamaria 1989; Majewski 1994b]
Distribution and hosts
This species has a worldwide distribution, known from the five continents. Europe: Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom; Africa: Algeria, Canary Islands, Ethiopia; America: Argentina, Grenada, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela; Asia: Japan, Korea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Taiwan; Oceania: Australia (Santamaria et al. 1991). Not included in Santamaria et al. (1991) are records from Hungary (Bánhegyi et al. 1985), France (Duverger 1995), India (Kaur & Mukerji 1996b), Russia (Markovskaja 2004), China (Shen & Ye 2006), Sweden (Huggert 2010), Ecuador (Bernardi et al. 2014), and Turkey (Rossi 2016). Occurs on Col. Staphylinidae of the genus Philonthus and allied like Spatulonthus, but also on Gabrius, Eulissus Mannerheim, 1830, Gabronthus, Cafius, Rabigus Mulsant & Rey, 1876, and Xantholinus.
Collections examined from Denmark
On Philonthus coprophilus Jarrige, 1949 (Col. Staphylinidae Staphylininae) DENMARK – Lolland, Falster, Møn (LFM) • Høvblege; 54°57.826′ N, 12°30.574′ E; UB20; 6 Sep. 2019; JP 1514; JP det.; ZMUC C-F-124269.
On Philonthus debilis (Gravenhorst, 1802) (Col. Staphylinidae Staphylininae) DENMARK – Østjylland (EJ) • Kjellerup; 56°17.644′ N, 9°25.850′ E; NH23; 18 Nov. 2017; JP 820; JP det.; ZMUC C-F-123314. – Sydsjaelland (SZ) • Gammel Kalvehave; 54°59.745′ N, 12°8.232′ E; UA19; 27 Apr. 2018; JP 1085; JP det.; ZMUC C-F-123603.
On Philonthus discoideus (Gravenhorst, 1802) (Col. Staphylinidae Staphylininae) DENMARK – Nordøstsjaelland (NEZ) • Vest for Trørød; 55°50.223′ N, 12°31.185′ E; UB49; 13 Nov. 2016; JP 142; JP det.; ZMUC C-F-122619.
On Philonthus rectangulus Sharp, 1874 (Col. Staphylinidae Staphylininae) DENMARK – Nordøstsjaelland (NEZ) • Bispebjerg; 55°43.063′ N, 12°31.288′ E; UB47; 3 Nov. 2019; JP 1541; JP det.; ZMUC C-F-124301.
On Philonthus umbratilis (Gravenhorst, 1802) (Col. Staphylinidae Staphylininae) DENMARK – Nordøstsjaelland (NEZ) • Bispebjerg; 55°43.063′ N, 12°31.288′ E; UB47; 3 Nov. 2019; JP 1540; JP det.; ZMUC C-F-124300.
Remarks
First record from Denmark. Cosmopolitan as it is, its presence in Denmark is not surprising.
description: Published as part of Santamaria, Sergi & Pedersen, Jan, 2021, Laboulbeniomycetes (Fungi, Ascomycota) of Denmark, pp. 1-425 in European Journal of Taxonomy 781 on pages 284-285, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.781.1583, http://zenodo.org/record/5828924