Phylum：Zygomycota　>>　Class： Zygomycetes　>>　 Order： Entomophthorales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Zoophthora aphidis
 
   
   
　Author：

Zoophthora aphidis (Hoffmann in Fresenius) Batko, Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci., Ser. Sci. Biol. 12: 405. 1964.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Dead aphids attached to underside of leaves by rhizoids, body covered with dense mycelia, initially white when fresh, becoming pale yellow (3-4A3) to greyish orange (5A-B4-6) in age. Rhizoids abundant, emerging ventrally or latero-ventrally, monohyphal, 4.8-6.8 μm in diam., with disk-like ending. Hyphal bodies hyphae-like, or irregularly rounded. Conidiophores branched. Primary conidia 15.9-37.7 × 7.1-14.3 μm, L/D＝2.09-3.78, mononucleate, elongate, slightly fusiform, sometimes curved, apex rounded or conically tapering, papilla distinct, conical or rounded, occasionally pointed. Secondary conidia resembling primary conidia, 20.6-29.4 × 7.9-11.1 μm, L/D＝2.76-3.36, or capilliconidia. Capilliconidia 20.6-31.7 × 7.9-11.1 μm, L/D＝2.46-2.96, elongate falciform, sometimes papillate at one or both ends. Capillary slender, 96.8-108.7 × 2.4-3.2 μm. Resting spores not observed.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taipei City, National Taiwan University farm, on green peach aphids, Myzus persicae Sulzer, Homoptera, Ho.253, 31 Dec 1994. L. S. Hsieh.
 
 
 
　Habitat： on green peach aphids.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, CH, PL.
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS et al. 1997.
   
   
   
　Provided：

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