Neoconidiobolus B. Huang & Y. Nie, 2020

Nie, Yong, Yu, De-Shui, Wang, Cheng-Fang, Liu, Xiao-Yong & Huang, Bo, 2020, A taxonomic revision of the genus Conidiobolus (Ancylistaceae, Entomophthorales): four clades including three new genera, MycoKeys 66, pp. 55-81 : 55

Neoconidiobolus B. Huang & Y. Nie gen. nov.

Etymology.

Referring to the subgenus Conidiobolus raised to generic rank.

Type species.

Neoconidiobolus thromboides (Drechsler) B. Huang & Y. Nie.

Description.

Mycelia colourless. Primary conidiophores simple, sometimes branched from hyphal knots or differentiated from aerial hyphae, positively phototropic, bearing a single primary conidium. Primary conidia forcibly discharged, multinucleate, colourless, globose, pyriform to obovoid. Replicative conidia similar and smaller than primary conidia. Chlamydospores globose, formed terminally on hyphae or from globose cells by thickening of the wall. Zygospores formed in axial alignment with two conjugating segments, globose to ellipsoidal, smooth, colourless, rarely pale yellowish.

Notes.

The genus Neoconidiobolus is strikingly similar to the subgenus Conidiobolus which produces neither microconidia nor capilliconidia. All members in the clade of Neoconidiobolus share the following characteristics: forcibly discharged, colourless, globose, pyriform to obovoid primary conidia. Two kinds of replicative conidia produced. One is discharged, similar and smaller than primary conidia and the other is elongate and forcibly discharged. Two types of resting spores produced: zygospores and chlamydospores.