Rickia

Rickia is a genus of fungi in the family Laboulbeniaceae. The genus contain 132 species.

The genus name of Rickia is in honour of Johann Rick (known in Portuguese as João Evangelista Rick) (1869–1946), who was an Austrian-Brazilian teacher, clergyman and Botanist (Mycology). He taught Mathematics and Natural history between 1903-1915 at the Jesuit School in São Leopoldo, in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.

The genus was circumscribed by Fridiano Cavara in Malpighia vol.13 on page 182 in 1899.

Species
As accepted by Species Fungorum;


 * Rickia admirabilis
 * Rickia africana
 * Rickia aloisii
 * Rickia ancylopi
 * Rickia anomala
 * Rickia anthribidicola
 * Rickia apiculifera
 * Rickia appendicifera
 * Rickia arachnoidea
 * Rickia arcuata
 * Rickia argentinensis
 * Rickia arimensis
 * Rickia aulachochiri
 * Rickia berlesiana
 * Rickia bifida
 * Rickia biseriata
 * Rickia borneoensis
 * Rickia candelabriformis
 * Rickia carpanetoi
 * Rickia celaenopsidis
 * Rickia cifoneae
 * Rickia circopis
 * Rickia circumdata
 * Rickia coelostomatis
 * Rickia coleopterophagi
 * Rickia compressa
 * Rickia coprighis
 * Rickia coptengalis
 * Rickia cornuti
 * Rickia corylophidorum
 * Rickia cristata
 * Rickia danaealis
 * Rickia dendroiuli
 * Rickia depauperata
 * Rickia dichotoma
 * Rickia discopomae
 * Rickia discreta
 * Rickia dominicensis
 * Rickia elegans
 * Rickia elliptica
 * Rickia encymonalis
 * Rickia episcaphae
 * Rickia episcaphulae
 * Rickia eumorphi
 * Rickia europsis
 * Rickia euxesti
 * Rickia euzerconalis
 * Rickia excavata
 * Rickia fainii
 * Rickia fastigiata
 * Rickia filifera
 * Rickia flagellifera
 * Rickia furcata
 * Rickia galatheae
 * Rickia georgii
 * Rickia gigas
 * Rickia gracilis
 * Rickia gryllotalpae
 * Rickia haytiensis
 * Rickia huggertii
 * Rickia hyalina
 * Rickia hyperborea
 * Rickia hypoaspidis
 * Rickia inclinata
 * Rickia inclusa
 * Rickia introversa
 * Rickia jacobsonii
 * Rickia javanica
 * Rickia kamerunana
 * Rickia kawasakii
 * Rickia kistneri
 * Rickia laboulbenioides
 * Rickia latior
 * Rickia lenoirii
 * Rickia leonis
 * Rickia leptaulacis
 * Rickia lophophora
 * Rickia lordithonis
 * Rickia lycopodinae
 * Rickia macrandra
 * Rickia macrochelis
 * Rickia mamillata
 * Rickia megisthani
 * Rickia minuta
 * Rickia minutissima
 * Rickia mycetinae
 * Rickia nephanis
 * Rickia nigella
 * Rickia nigrescens
 * Rickia nigriceps
 * Rickia nigrofimbriata
 * Rickia nipponensis
 * Rickia nutans
 * Rickia obcordata
 * Rickia obelostrepti
 * Rickia oceana
 * Rickia odontopygidarum
 * Rickia onthophagi
 * Rickia pachyiuli
 * Rickia pachylaelapis
 * Rickia pallescens
 * Rickia pallida
 * Rickia pallodina
 * Rickia papuana
 * Rickia parasiti
 * Rickia parvula
 * Rickia passalina
 * Rickia perlata
 * Rickia peyerimhoffii
 * Rickia phalacri
 * Rickia phloeonomi
 * Rickia pinnata
 * Rickia platessa
 * Rickia pocadii
 * Rickia polonica
 * Rickia proliferans
 * Rickia proteini
 * Rickia ptiliidarum
 * Rickia pulchra
 * Rickia radiata
 * Rickia rhacomycoides
 * Rickia rhynchophora
 * Rickia rostellata
 * Rickia rostrata
 * Rickia rotundata
 * Rickia sakaii
 * Rickia sakkae
 * Rickia sarawakensis
 * Rickia saulae
 * Rickia scydmaeni
 * Rickia serrulata
 * Rickia seticola
 * Rickia setifera
 * Rickia siddhartha
 * Rickia silvestrii
 * Rickia spathulata
 * Rickia sphindidorum
 * Rickia stellata
 * Rickia stenotarsi
 * Rickia sugiyamae
 * Rickia tachini
 * Rickia taiwanensis
 * Rickia tessellata
 * Rickia tomari
 * Rickia trichophora
 * Rickia trinitatis
 * Rickia uncigeri
 * Rickia uncinata
 * Rickia uropodae
 * Rickia wasmannii
 * Rickia wulaiensis
 * Rickia yoshii
 * Rickia zanettii

Former species
Moved species still within the Laboulbeniaceae family;
 * R. formicicola now Dimorphomyces formicicola
 * R. lispini = Diaphoromyces lispini
 * R. lispini = Rickia sugiyamae
 * R. marginata = Diaphoromyces marginatus
 * R. megisthani var. trachyuropodae = Rickia megisthani
 * R. melanophthalmae = Benjaminiomyces melanophthalmae
 * R. perpusilla = Benjaminiomyces perpusillus
 * R. platensis = Benjaminiomyces platensis
 * R. pumila = Benjaminiomyces pumilus
 * R. zirophori = Diaphoromyces zirophori