Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Metarhizium anisopliae var. anisopliae
 
   
   
　Author：

Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) Sorok. var. anisopliae Tulloch, Plant Parasites of Man and Ani-mals as causes of infectious diseases. 2: 267. 1883.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Host covered by weft of white mycelium. Hyphae septate, branched, hyaline, 1.6-4.4 μm wide. Conidiophores of variable length, penicillicate, in candle- or palisade-like arrangement, apically forming a sporulation layer, often aggregating into sporodochia, with stromatic base, each branch bearing whorls of 2-5 metulae and phialides. Metulae cylindrical to clavate, smooth-walled, 5.2-9.5 ×2.4-3.2 μm. Phialides elongate cylindrical, slightly constricted, apex tapering, thickened, neck inconspicuous or absent, hyaline, smooth-walled, (4.8-)6.8-10.3(-14.3) × 2.4-3.2 μm. Conidia forming in long chains, often aggregated into prismatic columns, broadly ellipsoidal to cylindrical, sometimes slightly constricted, smooth-walled, apiculate at one or both ends, one-celled, hyaline, in mass yellowish white (1A2), greenish white to pale green, (29-30A2-3), 4.4-7.5(-9.1) × 2.0-3.2 μm. Teleomorph not observed.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taipei City, Yangmingshan National Park, on leafhopper, Cicadellidae, Homoptera, Ho.144, 16 Aug 1990; Kaohsiung County, Tienliao, on planthop-pers, Purohita sp., Delphacidae, Homoptera, Ho. 194, Ho.195, 16 Jul 1992; Nantou County, Puli, on ant, Leptogenys sp., Ponerinae, Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Hy.3, 5 Jan 1989; Taipei County, Sanhsia, on pupa of rhinoceros beetle, Allomyrina dichotomus, Dynastidae, Col-eoptera, Co.62, 27 Apr 1996, Chiou I-Chung.
 
 
 
　Habitat： on leafhopper, planthoppers, ant or pupa of rhinoceros beetle.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, Papua, New Guinea, Netherlands.
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS et al. 1997.
   
   
   
　Provided：

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