1 Manana Kereselidze, Dr., V. Gulisashvili Forest Institute of the Agricultural University of Georgia, David Aghmashenebeli Alley, 13-th km., 0159, Tbilisi, Georgia, [email protected] 2 Slavimira Draganova, Dr., Assoc.Prof., Institute of Soil Science, Agrotechnologies and Plant Protection, 9 Shosse Bankya Str., 1080 Sofia, Bulgaria, sdraganova19@ gmail.com 3,5 Daniela Pilarska, Dr., P...

A new microsporidian parasite Nosema chrysorrhoeae n. sp., isolated in Bulgaria from the browntail moth (Euproctis chrysorrhoea L.), is described. Its life cycle includes two sequential developmental cycles that are similar to the general developmental cycles of the Nosema-like microsporidia and are indistinguishable from those of two Nosema spp. from Lymantria dispar. The primary cycle takes p...