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Issue: Vol. 464 No. 4: 21 October 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-10-21
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.464.4.2
Page range: 277–292
Abstract views: 18
PDF downloaded: 1

Ophiocordyceps tianshanensis sp. nov. on ants from Tianshan mountains, PR China

Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand. Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand. CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China. Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand.
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China. World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China. Centre for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China.
Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand. Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand. Innovative Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China.
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China. Centre for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China.
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China. World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China. Centre for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China.
Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.
School of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, P.R. China. Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.
new species Camponotus japonicus entomopathogenic fungi ecology multigene phylogeny taxonomy zombie-ant fungi Fungi

Abstract

Ophiocordyceps tianshanensis is a novel species introduced from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The taxon was discovered with its sexual and asexual specimens on Camponotus japonicus (Formicidae) under the bark of humid and decayed wood of Picea schrenkiana. With irregularly distorted stromata and distributed in the cold and high-altitude Tianshan Mountains, the species can be separated from other extant Ophiocordyceps species. Morphological and multigene phylogenetic analyses support its novelty. We provide additional ecological data on this cordyceps species from northwestern China.