Metarhizium rileyi[6] is a species of entomopathogenic fungus in the family Clavicipitaceae. This species is known to infect Lepidoptera, including economically important insects in the Noctuoidea and Bombycoidea; there is an extensive (pre 2014) literature on this fungus under its synonym Nomuraea rileyi.
| Metarhizium rileyi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Hypocreales |
| Family: | Clavicipitaceae |
| Genus: | Metarhizium |
| Species: | M. rileyi
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| Binomial name | |
| Metarhizium rileyi (Farl.) Kepler, Rehner & Humber (2014)
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| Synonyms | |
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Nomuraea rileyi (Farl.) Samson (1974)[1] | |
Importance
editIn sericulture, the term "green muscardine" has been used for fungal infections of silkworms caused by M. rileyi.[7]
M. rileyi has been considered as a potential mycoinsecticide for use against several noctuid insect pests.[8] Blastospores of M. rileyi can be produced easily in liquid media: but conidia are preferred for practical field use. For laboratory purposes, these can be produced, expensively, on Sabouraud’s maltose agar supplemented with 1% yeast extract, but the use of grain substrates is preferred for mass production.[9]
References
edit- ^ Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ Gösswald (1939), In: Arb. biol. BundAnst. Land-u. Forstw. 22:434
- ^ Charles (1936), In: Mycologia 28:398
- ^ a b "CABI databases". Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ Maubl. (1903), In: Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 19:296
- ^ Kepler, Humber, Bischoff, Rehner SA (2014) Mycologia 106(4): 824.
- ^ Fernando E. Vega; Harry K. Kaya (14 December 2011). Insect Pathology. Academic Press. p. 432. ISBN 978-0-12-384985-4.
- ^ Ignoffo CM (1981) in H. D. Burges, (ed.) Microbial Control of Pests and Plant Diseases, 1970-1980, pp. 513-538, Academic Press, London.
- ^ Holdom DG, van de Klashorst G (1986) Inexpensive Culture Media and Methods for Nomuraea rileyi. J. Invertebrate Pathology 48, 246-248.
External links
edit- Images at iNaturalist
Data related to Metarhizium at Wikispecies
