Chlorocillium Zare & W. Gams, Mycol. Progr.

Chen, Wan-Hao, Li, Dan, Liang, Jian-Dong, Ren, Xiu-Xiu, Zhao, Jie-Hong & Han, Yan-Feng, 2024, Chlorocillium sinense sp. nov. (Clavicipitaceae) and Calcarisporium guizhouense sp. nov. (Calcarisporiaceae) in Hypocreales from China, MycoKeys 109, pp. 91-107 : 91-107

Chlorocillium Zare & W. Gams, Mycol. Progr. 15: 1005, 2016

= Pseudometarhizium W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han, J. D. Liang & Z. Q. Liang , MycoKeys 91: 59, 2022 MycoBank No: 842641.

Type species.

Chlorocillium griseum (Petch) Zare & W. Gams.

Notes.

Chen et al. (2022 a) introduced the genus Pseudometarhizium with P. araneogenum (type species) and P. lepidopterorum in the family Clavicipitaceae . However, in the present study, the multi-gene phylogenetic analyses revealed that Pseudometarhizium species clustered with Chlorocillium s. str. (Fig. 2 ). Besides, the typical characteristics of Pseudometarhizium are entirely consistent with Chlorocillium . Thus, the genus Pseudometarhizium is synonymized under Chlorocillium and the two known species of Pseudometarhizium are transferred into Chlorocillium .

Figures

Figure 2. Phylogenetic analysis of Chlorocillium species in Clavicipitaceae, based on multigene dataset (ITS, LSU, RPB 2 and tef - 1 α). Statistical support values (≥ 50 % / 0.5) are shown at the nodes for ML bootstrap support / BI posterior probabilities. The new taxa are in bold.