Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Entomophthora cf. muscae or ferdinandii or schizophorae spore sprayed out of dead Drosophila

Posted by Jan Maca on 16-08-2018 19:08
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As concerns the fly, it belongs to Drosophila melanogaster group. The fungus belongs indeed to Entomophthorales, but I would be cautious in species determination; there are about three hundred of described species, most of them parasitizing insects, apparently there is not only one on Diptera.
A mycologist, or mycological literature, could give you muh more of interesting information.