Ophiocordyceps rubiginosiperitheciata (Kobayasi & Shimizu) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora

Zha, Ling-Sheng, Kryukov, Vadim Yu, Ding, Jian-Hua, Jeewon, Rajesh & Chomnunti, Putarak, 2021, Novel taxa and species diversity of Cordyceps sensu lato (Hypocreales, Ascomycota) developing on wireworms (Elateroidea and Tenebrionoidea, Coleoptera), MycoKeys 78, pp. 79-117 : 79

Ophiocordyceps rubiginosiperitheciata (Kobayasi & Shimizu) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora

Cordyceps rubiginosiperitheciata ≡ Cordyceps rubiginosiperitheciata Kobayasi & Shimizu [as ‘rubiginosoperitheciata’]

Hosts.

Elateroidea or Tenebrionoidea larvae.

Known distribution.

Japan ( Shimizu 1997).

Note.

The host of the species was originally recorded as a Coleoptera larva ( Kobayasi and Shimizu 1983). According to the illustration by Shimizu (1997), hosts of the species are wireworms.