Distribution of Aureoboletus projectellus in Europe

Aureoboletus projectellus is an American bolete which was first reported in Europe at the end of the 20th century. At the beginning, it was only observed on the Baltic Sea shore. Recently, the range of this fungus has been expanding significantly. To predict the directions of its further dispersal, the current distribution of Aureoboletus projectellus in Europe is monitored by Department of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (University of Warsaw, Poland). Several information on distribution of this species in Europe were gathered from different mycological forums and websites (e.g. bioforum.pl, senes.lv, schwammer.de), available published papers (e.g. Motiejūnaitė et al., 2011; Kutorga et al., 2012; Schreiner, 2015; Wrzosek et al., 2017) personal observations, and personal communications with mushroom hunters, national parks and foresters, amateur and professional mycologists. These data were used to prepare following paper: Banasiak et al. (2019). Related papers: 1) Banasiak Ł., Pietras M., Wrzosek M., Okrasińska A., Gorczak M., Kolanowska M., Pawłowska J. (2019) Aureoboletus projectellus (Fungi, Boletales) - An American bolete rapidly spreading in Europe as a new model species for studying expansion of macrofungi. Fungal Ecology 39: 94-99 and 2) Wrzosek M., Motiejunaite J., Kasparavicius J., Wilk M., Mukins E., Schreiner J., Vishnevskiy M., Gorczak M., Okrasińska A., Istel Ł., Pawłowska J. (2017). The progressive spread of Aureoboletus projectellus (Fungi, Basidiomycota) in Europe. Fungal Ecology 27: 134-136.