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.
   
 
 
 
 
　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.
 
 
 
　Habitat： on scale insect or an aleyrodid.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, New Zealand.
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS et al. 1997.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh
 
 
　Note： newly recorded species.