Species Amblyospora dyxenoides Sweeney, Graham & Hazard, 1988

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• Amblyospora dyxenoides Sweeney, A.W., Graham, M.F. & Hazard, I. 1988. Life cycle of Amblyospora dyxenoides sp. nov. in the mosquito Culex annulirostris and the copepod Mesocyclops albicans. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 51: 46-57.

Introduction

Based on ribosomal DNA sequence data, the Microsporidia are recognised as Fungi and not Protists. At present Australian Biological Resource Study has retained the Microsporidia as a phylum in the Protists for historical comparative purposes.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Culex annulirostris Skuse, 1889 [CULICIDAE] Common Banded Mosquito (oenocytes, fat bodies); Mesocyclops albicans Smith, 1909 [CYCLOPOIDAE]; Mesocyclops sp. [CYCLOPOIDAE]).

Associated Fauna References

Larkin, T.S., Sweeney, A.W. & Carruthers, R.I. 1990. Simulation of epizootic dynamics of a microsporidium pathogen of mosquitoes. pp. 359-363 in Proceedings of Vth. International Colloquim on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control. Society for Invertebrate Pathology: Adelaide. (Mesocyclops albicans; Culex annulirostris)

Sweeney, A.W., Doggett, S.L. & Gullick, G. 1989. Bioassay experiments on the dose response of Mesocyclops sp. copepods to meiospores of Amblyospora dyxenoides produced in Culex annulirostris mosquito larvae. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 53: 118-120 (Culex annulirostris; Mesocyclops sp.)

Sweeney, A.W., Doggett, S.L. & Gullick, G. 1989. Laboratory experiments on infection rates of Amblyospora dyxenoides (Microsporidia: Amblyosporidae) in the mosquito Culex annulirostris. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 53: 85-92 (Culex annulirostris)

Sweeney, A.W., Doggett, S.L. & Piper, R.G. 1990. Life cycles and biology of microsporidia infecting Australian mosquitoes. in Proceedings of Vth. International Colloquium on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control. Society for Invertebrate Pathology: Adelaide. pp. 66-69 (Mesocyclops sp.)

Sweeney, A.W., Graham, M.F. & Hazard, I. 1988. Life cycle of Amblyospora dyxenoides sp. nov. in the mosquito Culex annulirostris and the copepod Mesocyclops albicans. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 51: 46-57 (Mesocyclops albicans; Culex annulirostris)

Sweeney, A.W., Hazard, I. & Graham, M.F. 1985. Intermediate host for an Amblyospora sp. (Microspora) infecting the mosquito, Culex annulirostris. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 46: 98-102 (Mesocyclops albicans; Culex annulirostris)

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