Aecidium mori was to "Peridiopsora mori" (Barclay) K.V. Prasad et al. 1993, a combination of all three names, but it has not been adopted at all in taxonomy. It was decided later in 1993 that "Aecidium mori" was a different, distinct species, and this taxonomic assignment was kept. All of these differ from the species of "A. mori". Mulberry rust is a disease caused by "Aecidium mori", which only occurs on the "Morus" plant, the familiar "mulberry". "Morus" is grown for the breeding of "Bombyx mori" (silkworms) as part of the silk industry. The leaves of the "Morus" plant are the only
Bombyx mandarina differ in karyotype from those of inland China. Domestic silkmoths are closer to the latter regarding mtDNA sequence data, and especially lack some genetic apomorphies of the northeastern "B. mandarina". Thus, the initial domestic stock came from inland China. "B. mandarina" is able to hybridize with "B. mori". Both in the wild and in a domesticated environment, females release pheromones and wait for males to be attracted and fly to them. However, "B. mori" males cannot fly. Hybridisation in the wild, therefore, inevitably means breeding between domestic ("B. mori") females and wild ("B. mandarina") males. Hybridization is possible in both