Pandora (genus)

Pandora is also a genus of bivalves in family Pandoridae.
Pandora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Order: Entomophthorales
Genus: Pandora

Pandora is a genus of fungi within the order Entomophthorales of the Zygomycota.

It is best known by its representative Pandora neoaphidis, which acts as an obligate pathogen in various species of aphids. It is a widespread species that is often found to be the most common fungal insect pathogen on the local aphid community (e.g. in surveys from Argentina,[1] Slovakia[2] & China[3]). It has therefore been the subject of study for biological control.

There is limited evidence that the ladybird Harmonia axyridis, which is invasive in America and Europe, has an advantage over native ladybird species because it feeds more on Pandora-infested aphid cadavers.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Scorsetti (2007). Biocontrol 52: 641–55. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ Barta (2006). Biocontrol 51: 795–808. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Li (2007). Biocontrol science and technology 17: 433–49. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Roy (2008). Ecological entomology 33: 175–82. Missing or empty |title= (help)