Genus Mattesia Naville, 1930

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mattesia Naville, A. 1930. Recherches cytologiques sur les schizogregarines. 1. Le cycle evolutif de Mattesia dispora n.g., n.sp. Zeitschrift für Zellforschung und Mikroskopische Anatomie 11(2): 375-396 [378].

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from Tasmania.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Oncopera intricata Walker, 1856 [HEPIALIDAE] Corbie (larvae); Oncopera rufobrunnea Tindal, 1933 [HEPIALIDAE] Underground Grassgrub (larvae)).

Extra Ecological Information

Unidentified species of Mattesia have been found in the listed parasite hosts.

General References

Wright, P.J. 1993. New records of entomopathogens infecting Oncopera spp. (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) larvae in Tasmania. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 61: 315-316

History of changes