| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Metarhizium rileyi (Farl.) Kepler, Rehner & Humber (2014) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Nomuraea rileyi (Farl.) Samson (1974) | |
Metarhizium rileyi 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.
Importance
In sericulture, the term "green muscardine" has been used for fungal infections of silkworms caused by M. rileyi.
M. rileyi has been considered as a potential mycoinsecticide for use against several noctuid insect pests. 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.
References
- 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
- ^ "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
- Images at iNaturalist
Data related to Metarhizium at Wikispecies
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Metarhizium rileyi | |
| Nomuraea rileyi | |
| Botrytis rileyi | |