“…Sequence files were processed using the pattern analysis software package BioEdit Sequence Alignment Editor v.7.0.5.0 (Hall, 1999). To establish the identity of the strains at the species level, combined phylogenetic analyses of the three considered loci (ITS + tub + EF1-α) were conducted against those of different species sequences selected by extensive literature review (Udayanga et al, 2011(Udayanga et al, , 2014a(Udayanga et al, ,b, 2015Gomes et al, 2013;Lombard et al, 2014;Huang et al, 2015;Dissanayake et al, 2017a,b;Gao et al, 2017;Santos et al, 2017a,b;Fan et al, 2018;Guarnaccia et al, 2018;Yang et al, 2018;Long et al, 2019;Manawasinghe et al, 2019;Marin-Felix et al, 2019;Ozawa et al, 2019;Zhou and Hou, 2019;Hilário et al, 2020) and retrieved from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database ( Supplementary Table 1). Individual alignments were performed using the MUSCLE tool (Edgar, 2004) implemented in MegaX (Kumar et al, 2018).…”