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Jimbobo wrote:
Yesterday
Species level identification of Perginae larvae is not possible with our current understanding. There is no thorough guide that covers the early life stages of the nearly 60 species.
Perga dorsalis
Jennybach wrote:
Yesterday
Definitely. Assume the species name relates to cochineal dye given the deep red it becomes..
Trametes coccinea
Jimbobo wrote:
Yesterday
While these are likely to be a *Perga* sp. my understanding is that the larvae of *Perga affinis* and *Perga dorsalis* cant be separated visually. Don regarding the images of sawfly larvae on your website; where these validated identifications. ie where the larvae reared through to adults to confirm their true identity?
Perga dorsalis
Heinol wrote:
Yesterday
Along the margin of each tiny, orange apothecium there are well-spaced light brown hairs, which are thick-walled, septate and forked at their bases. On the right of the second image you see two such hairs, each about a fifth of a millimetre long. On the left of the second image you see a number of colourless, spore-filled asci and also numerous paraphyses, amongst which the asci nestle. The paraphyses are coloured, septate and swollen at their apices (up to about 10 micrometres wide). Species of Cheilymenia are mostly found on dung. These were growing on soil, amongst moss (mostly Funaria hygrometrica) in an area that had been burnt last year. In that same spot was the Pholiota that appears at Pholiota sp. (where I include a photo of the moss bed and immediate surrounds).
Cheilymenia spp.
Heinol wrote:
Yesterday
Well-weathered!
Trametes coccinea

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