Abstract
Online image databases as multi-purpose resources: discovery of a new host ant of Rickia wasmannii Cavara (Ascomycota, Laboulbeniales) by screening AntWeb.org
Highlights
Natural history collections have served as the fundament of taxonomic and biogeographical research over centuries
Records of parasitic fungi have originated from photo-sharing websites such as Flickr and iNaturalist and the image collections of further citizen science projects may be utilized (e.g. Lost Ladybug Project in the USA, the UK Ladybird Survey and iSpot in South Africa, see Roy et al 2016)
Regarding the family of ants (Formicidae), our group has recently found that the thorough screening of museum specimens can lead to new distributional and host-association records of the otherwise rarely observed ectoparasites in the order Laboulbeniales, providing the first Central European records of the species Laboulbenia camponoti Batra (Báthori et al 2014) and that of Rickia lenoirii Santam. (Báthori et al 2015)
Summary
Natural history collections have served as the fundament of taxonomic and biogeographical research over centuries. These biological collections could be important to reveal new geographical distributions of several species (Ponder et al 2001, Suarez and Tsutsui 2004, Solow and Roberts 2006, Pyke and Ehrlich 2010). Regarding the family of ants (Formicidae), our group has recently found that the thorough screening of museum specimens can lead to new distributional and host-association records of the otherwise rarely observed ectoparasites in the order Laboulbeniales, providing the first Central European records of the species Laboulbenia camponoti Batra (Báthori et al 2014) and that of Rickia lenoirii Santam. Regarding the family of ants (Formicidae), our group has recently found that the thorough screening of museum specimens can lead to new distributional and host-association records of the otherwise rarely observed ectoparasites in the order Laboulbeniales, providing the first Central European records of the species Laboulbenia camponoti Batra (Báthori et al 2014) and that of Rickia lenoirii Santam. (Báthori et al 2015)
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