Samuelsia P. Chaverri & K.T. Hodge, Stud. Mycol. 60: 59 (2008)

MycoBank number: MB 511385; Index Fungorum number: IF 511385; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13109; 6 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 3 species with sequence data.

Type speciesSamuelsia rufobrunnea P. Chaverri & K.T. Hodge

Notes – This entomophagous genus contains five species based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses. The asexual morph is aschersonia-like (Chaverri et al. 2008). Mongkolsamrit et al. (2011) described a new species, Samuelsia mundiveteris. The genus infects scale insects and whiteflies and produces bright coloured, pulvinate or discoid stromata or conidiomata, superficial or embedded perithecia, cylindrical asci, long-fusiform, non-disarticulating ascospores and small allantoid conidia (Chaverri et al. 2008).

Species

  • Samuelsia rufobrunnea