Holotype:
THAILAND, Phitsanulok Province, Ban Phaothai Community Forest, 5 Nov. 2015, K. Tasanathai, S. Mongkolsamrit, A. Khonsanit, W. Noisripoom, D. Thanakitpipattana, holotype BBH 42744, ex-type living culture BCC 79252.
Habitat:
Buried in the ground.
Host:
Lepidoptera pupa.
Description:
Stroma on Lepidoptera pupa cylindrical, solitary, simple, 10 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, white to cream. Rhizoids flexuous, arising from the pupa of Lepidoptera, ca 8 mm long under the ground. Fertile part terminal, discoid, ovoid, 2 mm long, 2 mm wide, white to creamy. Perithecia semi-immersed, ordinal in arrangement, ovoid to obclavate with protruding apices, 603-640 × 275-300 μm. Asci cylindrical, 235-462.5 × 2-3 μm, apical cap prominent, 2-2.5 μm wide. Ascospores hyaline, filiform, whole, multi-septate, 222.5-360 × 1 μm. Conidia cylindrical, 2.5-4 × 1 μm, seen as microcyclic sporulation of the ascospores on glass slide. Asexual morph not seen in nature.
Culture characteristics:
Colonies on PDA attaining a diam of 25 mm in 14 d, white, cottony, high mycelial density, reverse cream. Hyphae smooth-walled, hyaline, 1–1.5 μm diam, conidia and reproductive structure not observed.
Reference:
Mongkolsamrit S, Khonsanit A, Thanakitpipattana D, et al. (2020). Revisiting Metarhizium and the description of new species from Thailand. Studies in Mycology 95: 171–251.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simyco.2020.04.001Species |
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Strain |
ITS | LSU | RPB1 | TEF1 |
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| BCC 79252 | MN781914 | MN781829 | MN781736 | MN781682 |
| BCC 79267 | MN781915 | MN781826 | MN781735 | - |