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No Titlehidden Biodiversity Revealed By Collections-Based Research—Laboulbeniales In Millipedes: Genus Rickia Dec 2015

No Titlehidden Biodiversity Revealed By Collections-Based Research—Laboulbeniales In Millipedes: Genus Rickia

Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira

Nine new species of the genus Rickia parasitizing Diplopoda are described: R. appendicifera from Iran on Chiraziulus, R. candelabriformis from Australia and New Zealand on several Spirostreptida, R. galatheae from New Zealand on Eumastigonus, R. gigas from Tanzania on ‘Spirostreptus and Archispirostreptus, R. lophophora from Tanzania on some genera of Spirostreptidae, R. obelostrepti from Tanzania on Obelostreptus, R. odontopygiidarum from Tanzania on Odontopygidae, R. platessa from Singapore and Thailand on Pachybolidae, and R. rhynchophora from Australia on Trigoniulus.  This nearly triples the previously known number of species of Rickia species on millipedes; …