Nosema pieriae, Yaman & Bekircan & Radek & Linde, 2014

Nosema pieriae sp. n.

Host: Pieris brassicae Linneaus ( Lepidoptera : Pieridae ).

Site of infection: Gut epithelium.

Interface: Meronts and disporous sporonts in direct contact with host cytoplasm.

Spores: Binucleate free spores are oval shaped, mean dimensions: 4.21 × 1.91 µm, n = 50 (range 3.13– 5.47 × 1.31–2.45 µm), 6 coils of isofilar polar filament.

Locality: Specimens described here were collected from Beşikdüzü ( Trabzon), Turkey.

Deposition of specimens: The samples for light and electron microscopy are preserved in Zoology – II Laboratory, Biology Department at the Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon – Turkey, with the Catalog No. MÇPB-01.

Etymology: The name of the species refers to the genus name of the host, Pieris brassicae .

Acknowledgements. A part of this study was supported by YÖK ( The Council of Higher Education ). The authors wish to express their thanks to Prof. Dr. Klaus Hausmann, Berlin, for making this study possible and Dr. Wei-Fone Huang, for reading the manuscript and some critical comments .

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Received on 27 th November, 2012; revised on 23 rd August, 2013; accepted on 26 th August, 2013