Ambrosiella Brader, Mycopath. Mycol. appl. 25: 314 (1965)

MycoBank number: MB 7119; Index Fungorum number: IF 7119; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13022; 12 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 10 species with sequence data.

Type species – Ambrosiella xylebori Brader.

Notes – Ambrosiella was invalidly described by Brader (1964) as A. xylebori from a gallery of Xylosandrus compactus in Coffea canephora from the Ivory Coast; no type was designated. The generic type was subsequently illustrated and designated based on Brader’s isolate (CBS 110.61) by von Arx & Hennebert (1965). Ambrosiella was previously a polyphyletic group. However, the genus was delimited based on DNA sequence data and new combinations and new species were proposed (Six et al. 2009, Harrington et al. 2010, 2014, Mayers et al. 2015, 2017, 2019). Ambrosiella species are obligate symbionts of the ambrosia beetle tribe Xyleborini (Mayers et al. 2015).

Species

  • Ambrosiella xylebori