Type: Moelleriella_phyllogena (Mont.) P. Chaverri & K.T. Hodge. Description: Sexual morph: Stromata mostly globose, thick pulvinate, convex, tuberculate, scutate, thin pulvinate almost effuse, whitish, yellowish, orange, brown, and black stromatal surface glabrous, tomentose, pruinose, or roughened; stromatic tissue not changing colour in 3% KOH. Perithecia completely embedded in stroma, half-embedded, or forming strong tubercles; stromatal outer tissue of textura angularis, epidermoidea or intricata, stromatal internal tissue generally of textura epidermoidea or intricate. Perithecia obpyriform to subglobose. Asci mostly cylindrical, capitate, cap thickness. Ascospores hyaline, smooth, filiform, multi-septate, disarticulating at septa, part-ascospores fusoid, cylindrical, subcylindrical, or ventricose. Asexual morph: Conidiomata from original substrate on host aschersonia-like, pycnidium-like conidiomata irregularly shaped. Phialides formed in a thick compact palisade, in short conidiophores, sometimes indistinct, branching once monochasial, twice monochasial, monoverticillate, or two level monochasial; phialides flask-shaped to slender. Conidia hyaline, smooth, unicellular, fusoid, ventricose or ovoid, generally with acute ends. Paraphyses sometimes present. Host: Scale insects and whiteflies.

Reference: Chaverri P, Liu M, Hodge KT (2008). A monograph of the entomopathogenic genera Hypocrella, Moelleriella, and Samuelsia gen. nov. (Ascomycota, Hypocreales, Clavicipitaceae), and their aschersonia-like anamorphs in the Neotropics. Studies in Mycology60: 1–66. https://doi:10.3114/sim.2008.60.01