Metarhizium phasmatodeae

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Metarhizium phasmatodeae
Metarhizium phasmatodeae
Metarhizium phasmatodeae
Metarhizium phasmatodeae
Metarhizium phasmatodeae
Metarhizium phasmatodeae
Metarhizium phasmatodeae
Metarhizium phasmatodeae
Metarhizium phasmatodeae
Metarhizium phasmatodeae
Metarhizium phasmatodeae


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.2020.04.001
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Species

Strain

Compound

Pubchem CID

Biological activity

Reference

Strain

5'TEF

ITS

LSU

RPB1

RPB2

SSU

TEF1

BCC 2841 - MN781911 MN781828 MN781738 MN781782 MN781931 MN781681
BCC 49272 - MK632035 MK632093 - MK632145 MK632119 MK632064