Ophiocordyceps variabilis (Petch) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora, 2007
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Ophiocordyceps variabilis (Petch) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora View in CoL
Cordyceps variabilis ≡ Cordyceps variabilis Petch
Cordyceps viperina = Cordyceps viperina Mains
Hosts.
Xylophagidae larvae ( Diptera ) ( Hodge et al. 1998; Yaroslavtseva et al. 2019).
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China (Shaanxi),Europe, Russia (Far East, Western Siberia), North America ( Petch 1937; Liang 2007; Hodge et al. 1998; Yaroslavtseva et al. 2019).
Notes.
In early literature, O. variabilis was recorded on Coleoptera (e.g. Elateridae ) and Diptera larvae in rotten wood ( Petch 1937; Mains 1958; Liang 2007). Hodge et al. (1998) checked many samples and confirmed the hosts to be Xylophagidae larvae ( Diptera ). More than 40 samples of O. variabilis were collected in Russia (Far East, Western Siberia) and all of them developed on Xylophagidae larvae ( Yaroslavtseva et al. 2019; Kryukov et al., unpublished). Ecological habits and morphology of Xylophagidae larvae and wireworms are closely similar, but their last abdominal segments are distinctly different. As with O. ferruginosa listed above, we conclude that O. variabilis is not a pathogen of wireworms.
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Ophiocordyceps variabilis (Petch) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora
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Cordyceps variabilis
Petch 1937 |
Cordyceps variabilis
Petch 1937 |
Cordyceps viperina
Mains 1937 |
Cordyceps viperina
Mains 1937 |