Sandersoniomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Laboulbeniaceae.[1] A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Sandersoniomyces divaricatus R.K. Benj. (1968).[2] It is found on Quedius beetles in California.[2]
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The genus was circumscribed by Richard Keith Benjamin in Aliso vol.6 (4) on page 1 in 1968.
The genus name of Sandersoniomyces is in honour of Milton William Sanderson (1910–2012), who was an American Entomologist who studied beetles and Phyllophaga (scarab beetles) and worked with the Illinois Natural History Survey.[3]
References
edit- ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.
- ^ a b "Sandersoniomyces - GSD Species". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
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