Experimental Laboratory Infection of Mosquito Larvae With Fungi of Genus Coelomomyces. I. Experiments With Coelomomyces Psorophorae Var. In Aedes Taeniorhynchus and Coelomomyces Psorophorae Var. In Culiseta Inornata
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
Volume
26
Issue
1
Publication Date
7-1-1975
First Page
21
Last Page
27
Abstract
Laboratory infections of Aedes taeniorhynchus and Culiseta inornata larvae have been obtained with two variants of Coelomomyces psorophorae. No infections resulted when larvae were incubated 24 hr with sporangia and zoospores. When four consecutive groups of larvae were incubated for 6 days each in containers to which dehiscing sporangia, sod, and algal water were added with the first group, no infections occurred in the first group of larvae, but infections did occur in the second group. This delay in infective activity suggests that alternate stages in the life cycle of these fungi may exist which lead to the development of unknown undescribed infective units. When A. taeniorhynchus larvae were incubated with sod collected 2 wk previously from a field site which consistently produced C. psorophorae infected larvae of A. taeniorhynchus, infection was obtained within the first 24 hr of exposure.
Recommended Citation
Federici, B.A. and D.W. Roberts. 1975. Experimental laboratory infection of mosquito larvae with fungi of genus Coelomomyces. I. Experiments with Coelomomyces psorophorae var. in Aedes taeniorhynchus and Coelomomyces psorophorae var. in Culiseta inornata. J. Invertebrate Pathology 26: 21 7.
