identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
C324241159592A1DD1C8FF07FBD18FE6.text	C324241159592A1DD1C8FF07FBD18FE6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ophiocordyceps anocheti S. Q. Xie, Y. P. Xiao & Y. Yang 2025	<div><p>Ophiocordyceps anocheti S.Q. Xie, Y.P. Xiao &amp; Y. Yang sp. nov. Fig. 2</p><p>Index Fungorum: IF 903592, Facesoffungi number: FoF 17624</p><p>Etymology:— Named after its host, Anochetus sp.</p><p>Sexual morph: undetermined. Asexual morph: Hymenostilbe -like. Synnemata 1.2–4.2 cm long, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, arising from the insect joint, solitary or multiple, pale yellow to light yellow, smooth, without an enlarged globose fertile head on the top. Phialides solitary along synnemata, stout, protuberant, hyaline, clavate, obclavate, 11.4–16.5 × 2.5–3.7 µm (x = 13.9 × 3.1 µm, n = 50). Conidia smooth-walled, hyaline, one-celled, solitary, long obovoid, fusiform-elliptical, 5.5–8.8 × 1.8–2.7 μm (x = 3.2 × 2 µm, n = 50).</p><p>Material examined:— CHINA. Guizhou Province: Guiyang city, at 895 m, 106.241 E, 26.522 N, 13 May 2023, collected by Shu Qiong Xie, YPD2323 (HKAS 132231, holotype). Same collecting details YPD2324 (HKAS 132269).</p><p>Known distribution:— Guizhou, China</p><p>Known hosts:— Red ant adults ( Anochetus sp., Ponerinae)</p><p>GenBank Numbers: HKAS 132231: (LSU: PV139248, SSU: PV139232, ITS: PV139217, tef-1α: PV156011, rpb1: PV155982, rpb2: PV155996), HKAS 132269: (LSU: PV139249, SSU: PV139233, ITS: PV139218, tef-1α: PV156012, rpb1: PV155983, rpb2: PV155997)</p><p>Notes:— Two phylogenetically species, Ophiocordyceps oxycephala and O. sphecocephala parasitize Vespula spp. ( Hymenoptera) (Hywel-Jones 1996), whereas the host of O. anocheti is Anochetus sp. ( Ponerinae). Ophiocordyceps anocheti is morphologically distinct from other Ophiocordyceps species, characterized by slender, pale yellow synnemata, hyaline phialides, and smooth-walled, fusiform-elliptical conidia. In the phylogenetic analysis, O. anocheti clustered with O. oxycephala and O. sphecocephala with strong support (100% MLBP, 1.00 PP) (Fig 1). Sequence comparisons between O. anocheti and O. sphecocephala revealed similarities of 98.80% (10 bp differences) for LSU, 94.56% (27 bp differences) for ITS, 98.64% (12 bp differences) for tef-1α, 98.05% (14 bp differences) for rpb1, and 97.97% (22 bp differences) for rpb2. Comparisons between O. anocheti and O. oxycephala showed 98.80% (10 bp differences) for LSU and 95.77% (23 bp differences) for ITS. Based on these phylogenetic and morphological analyses, O. anocheti is introduced as a new species. Details of asexual morph of Ophiocordyceps species parasitic on ants are provided in Table 2.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C324241159592A1DD1C8FF07FBD18FE6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Xie, Shu-Qiong;Yang, Yu;Xiao, Yuan-Pin;Lu, Yong-Zhong;Nalumpang, Sarunya	Xie, Shu-Qiong, Yang, Yu, Xiao, Yuan-Pin, Lu, Yong-Zhong, Nalumpang, Sarunya (2025): Ophiocordyceps anocheti sp. nov. a new ant-parasitizing species from China. Phytotaxa 704 (3): 271-282, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.704.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.704.3.5
