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Genus : Staphylococcus 



Staphylococcus acridicida Kuf f ernath 



Associated insects: Locusts, Pieris rapae and Locus ta 

 viridissima . 



In 1913, Kuf f ernath (1921) received locusts from Greece 

 which had "been part of a disastrous invasion. He found 

 the locusts infected with an organism which he isolated 

 and named S taphy 1 o c o c cus acridicida , finding it to "be 

 closely allied to Staphylococcus pyogenes ( S taphylo co c cus 

 aureus ) . He described the organism in his paper. 



In the title of his paper (see below) he refers to the 

 organism as Micrococcus ( Staphylococcus ) acridicida . 



*Kuff ernath, H. Microbe pathogene pour les Sauterelles 

 et d'autres insectes,- Micrococcus ( Staphylococcus ) 

 acridicida , Kuff. Nov. spec. --Ann. Gembloux, Brussels, 

 27, 253-257. 



Staphylococcus albus Rosenbach 



Insects and ticks concerned: The oriental roach, Blatta 

 oriental is ; the croton "bug, Blattella germanica ; the stable 

 fly, Stomoxys calci trans ; the bedbug, Cimex lectularius ; 

 the house fly, Muse a domestica ; the mosquitoes, Aedes 

 cinereus and Anopheles bifurcatus ; Rhodnius prolixus ; and 

 the ticks, Argas per si cus and Ornithodoros moubata . 



Tauber (19^0) found in- the hemolymph of the oriental 

 roach, two organisms which were pathogenic for the insect. 

 One was an unidentified rod, and the other was Staphylococ - 

 cus albus . Just how the bacteria made their entrance into 

 the hemolymph of normal roaches was not clear. He sug- 

 gested, however, that after the insect molts, the exoskele- 

 ton is very soft and is easily injured. Then the unin- 

 fected roaches come in contact with the infected ones, 

 and the bacteria penetrate the delicate newly exposed 

 exoskeleton, or pass through breaks in the surfaces and 

 so into the hemolymph. 



According to Herms (1939) Staphylococcus albus has 

 "been isolated from the legs of the croton "bug, Blattella 

 germanica . 



Duncan (1926) found the gut-contents of Argas per si cus , 

 Ornithodoros moubata , and Stomoxys calci trans "but not 



