North American Entomogenous Species of Cordyceps

Mains, E. B.

doi:10.1080/00275514.1958.12024722

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“…All species in this clade infected larvae of Scarabaeidae and have solitary, brown to purplebrown stromata. Within the 'ravenelii-scarabaeidae clade' O. barnesii and Ophiocordyceps konnoana forms a sister-group to North American species of O. ravenelii and O. superficialis (Mains 1941(Mains , 1958 as well as the northern Asian O. nigrella. O. konnoana was described from Japan (Kobayasi & Shimizu 1980) and is also reported from Korea.…”

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Ophiocordyceps barnesii and its relationship to other melolonthid pathogens with dark stromata

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Ophiocordyceps barnesii and its relationship to other melolonthid pathogens with dark stromata

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“…The majority of ant-associated fungi has been collected from tropical forests in Africa, South America and the Far East (Bequaert 1922;Mains 1949Mains , 1951Mains , 1958Petch 1931Petch , 1934. The subject is a 'no man's land between the entomologist and the applied mycologist or plant pathologist' (Fawcett 1944), and this may explain the overall lack of quantitative data.…”

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Natural Control of Arthropods, with Special Reference to Ants (Formicidae), by Fungi in the Tropical High Forest of Ghana

Zhong

P²,

Wang³

1974

The Journal of Applied Ecology

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“…These fungi display a staggering variety of morphologies, colors and host affiliations that formed the basis for past classification schemes (Massee 1895;Kobayasi 1941;Mains 1958;reviewed in Sung et al 2007b). Sung et al (2007a, b) determined Cordyceps to be polyphyletic with molecular phylogenies not supporting most of the previously proposed subgeneric taxa.…”

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Ophiocordyceps pulvinata sp. nov., a pathogen with a reduced stroma

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Ophiocordyceps pulvinata, a pathogen of ants, is formally described as a new species. Genus level designation of this species is difficult due to several apparently conflicting morphological and ecological characters. Affinity with Ophiocordyceps is suggested by the dark color stroma and ascospore morphology. However, the species was included in a book of entomopathogenic fungi of Japan as Torrubiella sp. due to the production of perithecia on an astipitate stroma. Phylogenetic analyses of molecular data support a close relationship with O. unilateralis, a finding consistent with morphological characteristics of the color, asci and ascospores and ecological traits of host affiliation. Thus, O. pulvinata represents another example of the loss of stipe for the hypocrealean arthropod pathogenic fungi and highlights the utility of asci and ascospore morphology as taxonomically informative characters of closely related taxa.

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North American Entomogenous Species of Cordyceps

Cited by 87 publications

References 27 publications

Ophiocordyceps barnesii and its relationship to other melolonthid pathogens with dark stromata

Ophiocordyceps barnesii and its relationship to other melolonthid pathogens with dark stromata

Natural Control of Arthropods, with Special Reference to Ants (Formicidae), by Fungi in the Tropical High Forest of Ghana

Ophiocordyceps pulvinata sp. nov., a pathogen with a reduced stroma

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