Metacordyceps

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Metacordyceps
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Clavicipitaceae
Genus: Metacordyceps
G.H.Sung, J.M.Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora (2007)
Type species
Metacordyceps taii
(Z.Q.Liang & A.Y.Liu) G.H.Sung, J.M.Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora (2007)
Synonyms
  • DiheterosporaKamyschko ex G.L. Barron & Onions (1966)
  • DiheterosporaKamyschko (1962)

Metacordyceps is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae. [1] The anamorphs of Metacordyceps appear to include Metarhizium species. [2]

Contents

Metacordyceps species attack insects in the orders Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, hosts that are common throughout all Cordyceps-like fungi.

Species

Genus proposed in 2012: [3]

References

  1. ↑ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
  2. ↑ Sung G-H, Hywel-Jones NL, Sung J-M, Luangsa-ard JJ, Shrestha B, Spatafora JW (2007). "Phylogenetic classification of Cordyceps and the clavicipitaceous fungi". Studies in Mycology. 57: 5–59. doi:10.3114/sim.2007.57.01. PMC   2104736 . PMID   18490993.
  3. ↑ Kepler, R.M.; Sung, G.-H.; Ban, S.; Nakagiri, A.; Chen, M.-J.; Huang, B.; Li, Z.; Spatafora, J.W. (2012-01-01). "New teleomorph combinations in the entomopathogenic genus Metacordyceps" . Mycologia. 104 (1): 182–197. doi:10.3852/11-070. ISSN   0027-5514. PMID   22067304.
  4. ↑ Wang, Y; Dai, YD; Yang, ZL; Guo, R; Wang, YB; Yang, ZL; Ding, L; Yu, H (2021). "Morphological and Molecular Phylogenetic Data of the Chinese Medicinal Fungus Cordyceps liangshanensis Reveal Its New Systematic Position in the Family Ophiocordycipitaceae". Mycobiology. 49 (4): 297–307. doi:10.1080/12298093.2021.1923388. PMC   8409936 . PMID   34512076.
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