Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >> Order: Hypocreales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Torrubiella luteorostrata | |||
Author: | Torrubiella luteorostrata Zimm., Centralbl. f. Bakt. Abt. 2, 7: 872. 1901. |
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Description: | Infected scale insects covered with dense, pulvinate, or discoid mycelium mat, 0.7-1.6 mm in diam., 0.4 mm thick, light brown (6D4-6), brown (7E6-8), or reddish brown to dark brown (9F6), margin surrounded by white byssoid subiculum, several mm wide, consisting of closely interwoven, hyaline, septate, smooth hyphae, 2.0-3.2 μm wide. Perithecia produced on the pulvinate mycelium mat or subiculum, scattered or aggregated in a circle, elongate flask-shaped or elongate conoid, tomentose, brownish red to violet brown (10D-F8), 560-720 × 210-320 μm, neck 100-130 μm wide, yellowish brown (5E5-6) to violet brown. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, capitate, up to 240 μm long, 5.2-7.9 μm wide, with perforated refractive cap, 3.2-4.0 μm thick. Ascospores filiform, septate, hyaline, 1.3-2.0 μm wide, breaking into partspores. Partspores cylindrical, truncate, 7.9-14.3 ×1.3-2.0 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Miaoli County, Taian, Kwanwu, on scale insect, Homoptera, Ho.249, 19 Nov 1994; Pingtung County, Manchou, Nanjenshan, on an aleyrodid, Dialeuropora sp., Aleyrodidae, Homoptera, Ho.266, 1 Mar 1995. |
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Habitat: | on scale insect or an aleyrodid. | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan, New Zealand. |
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References: | Tzean, SS et al. 1997. |
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Provided: | S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh |
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Note: | newly recorded species. | |||