Ecto- and Endoparasitic Fungi on Ants from the Holarctic Region
Figure 7
(a) Myrmicinosporidium mature spores inside workers Tetramorium semilaeve (inset: darker, infested worker, and normally coloured worker); (b) Pheidole pallidula with many spores on thorax, coxae, and gaster; (c) gaster of a male Pheidole pallidula with spores; (d) SEM image of a spore, showing the artifactual characteristic doughnout shaped form resulting from the alcohol fixation.