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

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

Cordyceps nigripoda ≡ Cordyceps nigripoda Kobayasi & Shimizu

Host.

Elateroidea or Tenebrionoidea larva.

Known distribution.

Japan ( Kobayasi and Shimizu 1982b).

Note.

Host of the species was originally recorded as a Coleoptera larva ( Kobayasi and Shimizu 1982b). According to the illustration by Shimizu (1997), the host is a wireworm.