“…Subsequently, as a typical invasive species, it has been rapidly spreading to the west and south. In Europe, besides the already mentioned countries, this fungus was up to now recorded in Austria (Rigler-Hager et al, 2003;Kruse, 2013), Czech Republic (Dietrich, 2005;Müller, 2003), Denmark (Hantula, Scholler, 2013), Germany (Scholler, 1999;Scholler et al, 2010;Kruse, 2013), Hungary (Szabo, 2002), Italy (Moricca, Maresi, 2010), Norway (Gjaerum et al, 2004), Poland (Wołczańska, 1999Piątek et al, 2001;Mułenko et al, 2006), Romania (Negrean, Anastasiu, 2006), Russia (Hantula, Scholler, 2013;Bulgakov et al, 2014), Slovakia (Kokeš, 2004), Sweden (Gjaerum et al, 2004;Hantula, Scholler, 2013), Switzerland (Meier et al, 2003), Turkey (Sert, Sumbul, 2005), UK (Stringer, 2010;Hantula et al 2012), and Ukraine (Tykhonenko, 2011;Tykhonenko, Heluta, 2014).…”