The majority of the species in Dimargaris, Dispira, and Tieghemiomyces have been grown in axenic culture with a suitable host. Most of these taxa are haustorial mucoralean parasites and can be grown successfully in the laboratory on Cokeromyces recurvatus Poitras (Spinalia radians has not been cultured), except Dispira simplex and D. implicata Misra & Lata (Misra and Lata, 1979) which normally parasitize Ascomycetes (Chaetomium spp.). Also, the majority of the Dimargaritaceae are coprophilous, but some spp. have been isolated from the sap of a birch stump or more commonly from soil.