Holotype:
THAILAND, Chiang Mai Province, Ban Hua Thung Community Forest, 16 Aug. 2011, A. Khonsanit, J. Kumsao, K. Tasanathai, P. Srikitikulchai, S. Mongkolsamrit, holotype BBH 32532, ex-type living culture BCC 49272.
Habitat:
In leaf litter.
Host:
Stick insects (Phasmatodea).
Description:
Host covered with opaline green and peacock green powdery conidia. Phialides smooth-walled, ovoid with semi-papillate apices, cylindrical, 8-12 × 2.5-5 μm. Conidia smooth-walled, ovoid, occasionally cylindrical, 6-9.5 × 2-3.5 μm.
Culture characteristics:
Colonies on PDA attaining a diam 26–27 mm in 14 d, flat, closely appressed to the agar surface, floccose, at first white turning to dark green, white cream at the margins, powdery while sporulating. Sporulation starts at 5 d after inoculation, reverse raw umber, sulphur yellow in the middle of colony and pearl gray at the margin. Conidiophores arising from aerial mycelia, erect, smooth-walled. Phialides smooth-walled, cylindrical, utriform, without a distinct neck, 6–12 × 2–3 μm. Conidia smoothwalled, dark green, cylindrical, ovoid, obclavate, 7–10 × 2–3 μm.
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 |
Strain |
Compound |
Pubchem CID |
Biological activity |
Reference |
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Strain |
5'TEF | ITS | LSU | RPB1 | RPB2 | SSU | TEF1 |
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| BCC 2841 | - | MN781911 | MN781828 | MN781738 | MN781782 | MN781931 | MN781681 |
| BCC 49272 | - | MK632035 | MK632093 | - | MK632145 | MK632119 | MK632064 |