Ophiocordyceps asyuensis (Kobayasi & Shimizu) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora [as 'asyuensis' ]

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 asyuensis (Kobayasi & Shimizu) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora [as 'asyuensis']

Cordyceps asyuensis ≡ Cordyceps asyuensis Kobayasi & Shimizu

Hosts.

Elateroidea or Tenebrionoidea larva.

Known distribution.

Japan ( Kobayasi and Shimizu 1980b).

Note.

Host of the species was originally recorded as a Coleoptera larva ( Kobayasi and Shimizu 1980b). According to the illustration by Shimizu (1997), the host is a wireworm.