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Metarhizium guizhouense Q. T. Chen & H. L. Guo, Acta Mycol. Sin.

  • 1. Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, P. R. China & State Key Laboratory of Functions and Applications of Medicinal Plants, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550014, P. R. China & Section of Genetics, Institute for Research and Development in Health and Social Care No: 393 / 3, Lily Avenue, Off Robert Gunawardane Mawatha, Battaramulla 10120, Sri Lanka
  • 2. The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, China
  • 3. State Key Laboratory of Functions and Applications of Medicinal Plants, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550014, P. R. China & The Key Lab of Optimal Utilization of Natural Medicine Resources, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guizhou Medical University, University Town, Guian New District, Guizhou 550025, P. R. China
  • 4. Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, P. R. China
  • 5. Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand & State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
  • 6. The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, China & State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China & The Mushroom Research Centre, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
  • 7. Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P. R. China & CIFOR-ICRAF, World Agroforestry Centre, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P. R. China & Centre for Mountain Futures (CMF), Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, P. R. China
  • 8. International Fungal Research and Development Centre, The Research Institute of Resource Insects, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Kunming 650224, PR China
  • 9. Faculty of Agriculture and Food, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Kunming 650500, People's Republic of China
  • 10. Department of Plant Pathology, Agriculture College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, P. R. China
  • 11. Guizhou institute of biology, Guizhou academy of science, Guiyang, 550009, P. R. China

Description

Metarhizium guizhouense Q.T. Chen & H.L. Guo, Acta Mycol. Sin. 5(3): 181 (1986) (FIGURE. 8)

Index Fungorum Number: 130206

Specimen found on stick insects (Phasmatodea). Host’s internodes between abdominal segments were covered with white to pale green mycelium and sporulating conidiophores. Conidiophores arising from hyphae, smooth-walled. Phialides cylindrical, solitary, smooth-walled, 8–18 × 1–1.5 μm. Conidia smooth-walled, pale green to colorless (6.5– 9.5 × 2.5–3 μm), cylindrical, slightly constricted in the middle, round at both ends or tapered at one end. Bi-celled conidium was not observed.

Culture characteristics:— Colonies on PDA were relatively slow-growing, fluffy, beginning to white, and the spores appear green, started to produce conidia after 3 days in culture at 25 °C in the laboratory, 17 mm diam. after 10 days. Mature conidia chains are often spread on the surface of the colony in small granular clumps. Hyphae hyaline, separated, branched, about 3 um wide.

Material examined:— China, Guizhou Province, Guiyang, on dead stick insects, July 2019, Q.R. L, 2019GY03 (GMB0010), living cultures, GMBC0010 (new host record).

Known hosts and distribution:— Guizhou

Known hosts:— larvae of Noctuidae sp., stick insects

GenBank Numbers:— ITS: MW881444, LSU: MW 881450, RPB2: MW 883344

Note:— Metarhizium guizhouense, isolated on Hepialus sp. in Guizhou China, was introduced by Guo et al. (1986). In 1991, Liang et al. reported a M. taii Z.Q. Liang & A.Y. Liu on larvae of Noctuidae sp. (Lepidoptera). Metacordyceps taii was recognized to be the sexual morph of M. guizhouense by Bischoff et al. (2009). Qu et al. also reported that M. taii should be treated as a synonym of M. guizhouense based on molecular data. This is the first report of M. guizhouense isolated on stick insects (Phasmatodea).

Notes

Published as part of Wijayawardene, Nalin N., Dissanayake, Lakmali S., Li, Qi-Rui, Dai, Dong-Qi, Xiao, Yuanpin, Wen, Ting-Chi, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Wu, Hai-Xia, Zhang, Huang, Tibpromma, Saowaluck, Kang, Ji-Chuan, Wang, Yong, Shen, Xiang- Chun, Tang, Li-Zhou, Deng, Chun-Ying, Liu, Yanxia & Kang, Yingqian, 2021, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau: a mycological hotspot, pp. 1-31 in Phytotaxa 523 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5571977

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
R
Material sample ID
GMB0010, GMBC0010
Scientific name authorship
Q. T. Chen & H. L. Guo, Acta Mycol. Sin.
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Order
Hypocreales
Family
Clavicipitaceae
Genus
Metarhizium
Species
guizhouense
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Guo, H. L., Ye, B. L., Yeu, Y. Y., Chen, Q. T.; Fu, C. S. (1986) Three new species of Metarhizium. Acta Mycologica Sinica 5: 177 - 184.
  • Bischoff, J. F., Rehner, J. A. & Humber, R. A. (2009) A multilocus phylogeny of the Metarhizium anisopliae lineage. Mycologia 101: 512 - 530. https: // doi. org / 10.3852 / 07 - 202