| spiroplasma corruscae sp. nov., from a firefly beetle (coleoptera: lampyridae) and tabanid flies (diptera: tabanidae). | spiroplasma strain ec-1t (t = type strain), which was isolated from the gut of a lampyrid beetle (ellychnia corrusca) in maryland, was serologically distinct from other spiroplasma species and groups. similar strains were obtained from other e. corrusca specimens, and, later, numerous isolates of similar or partially related strains were obtained from several species of tabanid files. cells of strain ec-1t were helical, motile filaments that were bound by a single cytoplasmic membrane, and there ... | 1996 | 8863421 |
| spiroplasmas in the tabanidae. | spiroplasmas were observed in seven species of the family tabanidae (horse flies and deer flies). this is the fifth family of the order diptera now known to harbor spiroplasmas. noncultivable spiroplasmas were seen in the hemolymph of three species of the genus tabanus, and cultivable forms were isolated from the guts of six species in three genera. isolates from t. calens and t. sulcifrons were serologically similar and closely related to a spiroplasma in the lampyrid beetle, ellychnia corrusca ... | 1984 | 6511308 |
| lampyridae (coleoptera): a plethora of mollicute associations. | beetles (coleoptera) harbor many species ofacholeplasma andspiroplasma (division tenericutes, class mollicutes). mollicutes were isolated from guts and/or hemocoels of firefly beetles (lampyridae) from the united states (maryland and west virginia), ecuador, and tobago. firefly beetles were frequent hosts for the group xiv spiroplasma, isolated from ellychnia corrusca, and the group xix spiroplasma, isolated fromphoturis spp. the most unusual feature of the firefly-mollicute association is the c ... | 1992 | 24192863 |
| new spiroplasmas from insects and flowers: isolation, ecology, and host association. | eight spiroplasma strains from insects and one from spring flowers failed to react with antisera specific for any of the 11 described spiroplasma groups, with sera directed against spiroplasma group i subgroups, or with sera directed against two unnumbered groups previously reported to occur in tabanid flies. strains, all from maryland, were isolated from the hemolymph of the spotted cucumber beetle diabrotica undecimpunctata and the lampyrid beetle ellychnia corrusca, and the guts of the cantha ... | 1987 | 2889699 |