Holotype:
THAILAND, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Khao Yai National Park, 21 May 2009, K. Tasanathai, P. Puyngain, P. Srikitikulchai, R. Ridkaew, S. Mongkolsamrit, T. Chohmee, holotype BBH 29463, ex-type living culture BCC 36592.
Habitat:
Buried in the ground.
Host:
Lepidoptera larva.
Description:
Stromata solitary to several 25-45 × 2-3 mm, arising from head of infected Lepidoptera larva, sulphur-yellow to greenish-olive, the hosts’ bodies were covered with apple-green, paris-green mycelium. 
Perithecia semi-immersed, oblique in arrangement, ovoid, dark ostioles, 600-700 × 420-450 μm. 
Asci cylindrical, 300-420 × 3-6 μm with caps 5 × 5 μm thick. Ascospores hyaline, filiform, 200-300 × 2-3 μm.
Culture characteristics:
Colonies on PDA attaining a diam of 18–21 mm in 14 d, mycelium closely appressed and slightly convex in the middle of agar surface, flat, white at the margins turning greenish-olive and powdery while sporulating. Sporulation starts at 3 d after inoculation, reverse olive yellow in the middle of colony and white cream at the margin. Conidiophores arising from aerial mycelium, erect, smooth-walled, cylindrical. Phialides smooth-walled, cylindrical with semi-papillate apices, 7–10 × 1.5–2 μm. Conidia smooth-walled, greenish-olive, cylindrical with rounded apices or ellipsoidal, 5–9 × 2–2.5 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 | RPB2 | SSU | TEF1 |
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| BCC 36585 | - | - | - | MN781786 | - | MN781686 |
| BCC 36592 | - | - | - | MN781787 | - | MN781687 |
| BCC 39045 | - | MK632037 | MK632095 | MK632147 | MK632120 | MK632066 |