Microcera

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Microcera
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Nectriaceae
Genus: Microcera
Desm. (1848)
Type species
Microcera coccophila
Desm. (1848)

Microcera is a genus of Ascomycete fungi in the Nectriaceae family. [1]

It was thought to be monotypic genus with only one species, Microcera coccophila Desm. (1848) [2] As well as former species Microcera coccophila var. platysporaSousa da Câmara (1920) being reclassified as Microcera coccophila. Microcera coccophila was initially found on the bark of young living trees of Salix and Fraxinus in France. [3]

The genus has been considered as a synonym of genus Fusarium Link in major taxonomic revisions. [4] [5] [6] Then Gräfenhan et al. in 2011 resurrected genus Microcera based on DNA sequence data and accepted four Microcera species, viz. M. coccophila, M. diploa(Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Gräfenhan & Seifert, M. rubraGräfenhan & Seifert and M. larvarum(Fuckel) Gräfenhan, Seifert & Schroers. [7] Lombard et al. then further investigated phylogenetic relationships of Microcera based on DNA sequence data and reported that it constitutes a lineage distantly related to Fusarium but closely related to Fusicolla and Macroconia . Both within the Nectriaceae family. [8]

Then in 2021, 3 fungi were associated with Kuwanaspis howardi , a scale insect found on Phyllostachys heteroclada (fishscale bamboo) and Pleioblastus amarus (bitter bamboo) in China. New species Podonectria kuwanaspidis X.L. Xu & C.L. Yang sp. nov. and Podonectria novae-zelandiae Dingley, (both in Podonectriaceae family, Pleosporales order) as well as Microcera kuwanaspidisX.L. Xu & C.L. Yang sp. nov. [9]

It has a cosmopolitan distribution worldwide. [10]

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum; [11]

Former species; [11]

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References

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  3. ↑ "Species Fungorum - GSD Species". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  4. ↑ Wollenweber, H.W.; Reinking, O.A. Die fusarien, ihre Beschreibung, schadwirkung und bekämpfung. Berlin, Germany: Paul Parey. pp. 1–355.
  5. ↑ Booth, C. (1971). The Genus Fusarium. Kew, UK: Commonwealth Mycological Institute. pp. 1–237.
  6. ↑ Nelson, P.E.; Toussoun, T.A.; Marasas, W.F.O. (1983). Fusarium Species: An Illustrated Manual for Identification. University Park, PA, USA: Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 1–193.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Gräfenhan, T.; Schroers, H.J.; Nirenberg, H.I.; Seifert, K.A. (2011). "An overview of the taxonomy, phylogeny, and typification of nectriaceous fungi in Cosmospora, Acremonium, Fusarium, Stilbella, and Volutella". Stud. Mycol. 68: 79–113.
  8. ↑ Lombard, L.; Merwe, N.A.; Groenewald, J.Z.; Crous, P.W. (2015). "Generic concepts in Nectriaceae". Stud. Mycol. 80: 189–245.
  9. 1 2 Xu, Xiu-Lan; Zeng, Qian; Lv, Yi-Cong; Jeewon, Rajesh; Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa S.N.; Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N.; Hyde, Kevin D.; Xiao, Qian-Gang; Liu, Ying-Gao; Yang, Chun-Lin (2021). "Insight into the Systematics of Novel Entomopathogenic Fungi Associated with Armored Scale Insect, Kuwanaspis howardi (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in China". J. Fungi. 7 (8): 628. doi: 10.3390/jof7080628 . PMC   8401669 . PMID   34436167.
  10. ↑ "Microcera Desm". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  11. 1 2 "Species Fungorum - Search Page - Microcera". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
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