Ophiocordycipitaceae
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| Ophiocordycipitaceae Temporal range: Middle Cretaceous - Recent, [1] | |
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| Dead ants infected with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Hypocreales |
| Family: | Ophiocordycipitaceae G.H.Sung, J.M.Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora (2007) |
| Type genus | |
| Ophiocordyceps Petch (1931) | |
Ophiocordycipitaceae is a family of parasitic fungi in the phylum Ascomycota, class Sordariomycetes. It was created in 2007 to resolve the paraphyly of Calvicipitaceae.[2] It was updated in 2020.[3]
Fossil species
As accepted in 2020; (with number of species)[3]
- Hantamomyces Crous (1)
- Unilateralis T. F. Kirschtein (1)
- Harposporium Lohde (37) (Anamorphic)
- Hirsutella Pat. (50+)
- Hymenostilbe Petch (12)
- Ophiocordyceps Petch (263)
- Paraisaria Samson & B.L. Brady (11)
- Perennicordyceps Matočec & I. Kušan (4)
- Pleurocordyceps Y.J. Yao, Y.H. Wang, S. Ban, W.J. Wang, Yi Li, Ke Wang & P.M. Kirk (10)
- Polycephalomyces Kobayasi (18)
- Purpureocilium Luangsa-ard, Hywel-Jones, Houbraken & Samson (5)
- Syngliocladium Petch 1932 (5)
- Tolypocladium W. Gams (47)
Former assignments:
- Blistum split up into different genera
- Didymobotryopsis Accepted by Species Fungorum but not 2020 Outline
- Haptocillium moved to Drechmeria, Clavicipitaceae
- Synnematium synonym for Hirsutella
- Trichosterigma synonym for Hirsutella
