Type: Pseudogibellulaformicarum (Mains) Samson & H.C. Evans. Description: The phylogenetic analysis strongly supports the Pseudogibellula which contains P. formicarum clade within the Cordycipitaceae. The descriptions from the teleomorph are taken from Samson et al. (1989). The morphological character associated with the sexual morph includes cream to orange mycelium. Synnemata arising from the mycelium, bearing one or more perithecia terminally or subterminally. Perithecia surrounded with mycelium at the base, ovoid to conoid or flask-shaped, smooth, brownish. Asci cylindrical with hyaline cap. Ascospores filiform, not breaking into part-spores. The morphologies associated with the anamorph reproductive stage include the presence of distinct white powdery conidia from scattered conidiophores arising from mycelium covering the host. Conidiogenous cells flask-shaped to cylindrical, inconspicuous scars. Conidia one-celled, hyaline, smooth. Host: Cercopidae, Ricaniidae (Hemiptera) and Ponerinae, Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera), occur simultaneously with Ophiocordycepsflavida.

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