Arachnomyces scleroticus (Guarro, Gene & De Vrovey) Sun, Houbraken et A.J. Chen, 2019

Sun, Bing-Da, Zhou, Yu-Guang, Chen, Amanda-Juan & Houbraken, Jos, 2019, Phylogeny and a new species of the genus Arachnomyces (Arachnomycetaceae), Phytotaxa 394 (1), pp. 89-97 : 94

Arachnomyces scleroticus (Guarro, Gene & De Vrovey) Sun, Houbraken et A.J. Chen comb. nov.

MycoBank: MB 821136

Basionym : Malbranchea sclerotica Guarro, Gene & De Vroey, 1993 . Mycotaxon 48: 471.

Synonym: Onychocola sclerotica (Guarro, Gené & De Vroey) Gibas, Sigler et Currah, 2002 . Studies in Mycology 47: 135.

Notes: Malbranchea sclerotica was first reported as an anamorphic fungus, which produces numerous sclerotia and curved, cylindrical arthroconidia ( Guarro et al. 1993). In their phylogeny using partial small subunit region (SSU) sequences, this species was included in the Arachnomyces clade and it was transferred into the genus Onychocola as O. sclerotica ( Gibas et al. 2002a) . Although Gibas et al. (2002a) succeeded in inducing it to produce ascospores, they didn’t give an Arachnomyces name for this species. Based on the “one fungus, one name” provision and the priority principle, Arachnomyces has priority over Onychocola .