Author | Balfour-Browne, F.L. |
Year | 1960 |
Title | Green Muscardine Disease of Insects, with special reference to an epidemic in a swarm of locusts in Eritrea |
Type | Paper |
Source | CMI Descriptions of Pathenogenic Fungi and Bacteria: 65-74. |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Green Muscardine Disease is caused by the fungus Metarhizium anisopliae. It infects a wide range of insects, especially Coleoptera. |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification | Current | Metarhizium anisopliae | Green Muscardine Disease Of Insects - causative organism | Fungi: Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae |
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