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Abstract
With the transfer of Podangium erectum, the type species of Podangium Jahn, to the genus Stigmatella Berkeley and Curtis as an earlier, subjective synonym of Stigmatella brunnea, it has become necessary to assign the remaining species which were in the genus Podangium to another genus. Included among these species is Podangium boletus (synonym: Melittangium boletus), the type species of the genus Melittangium Jahn. Because none of the other species is the type of a genus, the correct name for the genus which includes the organisms under consideration is Melittangium. In addition to the type species, M. boletus, the genus includes M. lechenicolum (Thaxter) comb. nov. and M. alboraceum (Peterson) comb. nov.
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