Macrofungal Ascomycetes 2: Species with Names Beginning with I–P

Abstract

71. Isaria cateniobliqua (Z.Q. Liang) Samson & Hywel-Jones

Coremium parasite on host insect body, the insect body covered with velvety-like, white to pink mycelia. Coremuium 8–12 mm high, above 1 mm in diameter, cylindrical to clavate, generally unbranched, rose red to blood red, white spores covered the upper part when mature, spores 2–3 mm in diameter, white or pale pink. Conidiophore 90–150 × 1–1.5 μm, very few up to 500 μm, erect, branching 2–3 times, subtransparent, smooth. Conidia 2.5–7 × 1–2.5 μm, long rectangle, subrhabditiform, subellipsoid to oval or irregular oblong, transparent, smooth. Spores arranged more or less parallel to slightly inclined, becoming 30–100 μm long conidial chain.

Living on larvae and pupae of lepidopteran insects and larvae of leatherette insects (earwigs). Distributed in Central and Southern China.