Newly Recorded Lepista sordida (Schumach.) Singer (Agaricales Tricholomataceae) for Indonesia

Morphological and cytochemical characterization of spores and gills of Lepista sordida (Fungi: Basidiomycota)

Some ultrastructural and cytochemical aspects of Lepista sordida are described. Basidiospores with verruculose and irregular ornamentations were observed through scanning electron microscopy. Confocal microscopy indicated that most of them exhibited a single large lipid body, no acidic vesicles and nucleus localized in the cell periphery.

Lepista sordida Water Extract Enhances the Maturation of Mouse Dendritic Cells in Vitro and in Vivo

IDENTIFICATION OF AGARICALES COLLECTED IN MASHHAD AREA

Studying on Agaricales fungi collected from different parts of Mashhad and its suburbs (Khorasan province), 23 species were identificed. Among these, 18 species, namely, Lepiota cristata, Tricholoma sulphureum, Flammulina velutipes, Armillaria mellea, Pleurotus ostratus, Conocybe lactea, Agrocybe cylindracea, Mycena galopus, Psilocybe crobulus, Hypholoma   fasciculare, Agaricus bitorquis, Pholi...

Three new species, two newly recorded species and one newly recorded genus of Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from China.

The Chinese representatives of the genera Chrysaster Kumata and Cameraria Chapman (Gracillariidae: Lithocolletinae) were studied. Chrysaster is recorded for the first time in China. Three species belonging to Cameraria, C. diplodura Bai, sp. nov., C. rhynchophysa Bai, sp. nov. and C. jiulianshanica Bai, sp. nov., are described as new. Chrysaster hagicola Kumata and Cameraria magnisignata Kumata...

Echiniscus semifoveolatus (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae), a newly recorded species from China.

Echiniscus semifoveolatus Ito, 1993 (Tardigrada: Echiniscidae) is reported as a new record for China, and was collected from the Mt. Jinggang, Jiangxi, and the Wuyi Mountains, south-eastern China. This is the first report of this species from outside the type locality, Mt. Fuji, central Japan. The number of dorsal spines that arise from the posterior edge of the scapular plate ranges from zero ...