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Ophiocordyceps dominicanus
Ophiocordyceps dominicanus Poinar, F.E. Vega Mycologia, 2020, 11(1): 72. 22 Dec 2019
- Name
- Ophiocordyceps dominicanus
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Ophiocordyceps
- Authors (Pub.)
- Poinar G. O.
Vega F. E.
- Publication
- Entomopathogenic fungi (Hypocreales: Ophiocordycipitaceae) infecting bark lice (Psocoptera) in Dominican and Baltic amber [2019/12]
- Journal
- Mycologia
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2020
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 72
- Year
- 2019
- Fossil Status
- thallus
- Stratigraphy
- Cenozoic
- Strat. comment
- in amber; El Mamey Formation
- Location
- Amber mine, northern mountain ranges (Cordillera Septentrional, between Puerto Plato and Santiago), Dominican Republic
- Paleoregion
- America (Caribbean)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
- Repository Number
- No. Sy-1-13A, Poinar amber collection
- Diagnosis
- Synnema dark, pointed at tip; entire surface covered
with unbranched chains of conidia or released conidia;
conidiophores micronematous, phialides micronematous,
non-diverging; conidia mostly brown or
tan, globose, lacking surface ornamentation, formation
basipetal.
