Yosiokobayasia kusanagiensis – Facesoffungi number: FoF14500

Yosiokobayasia kusanagiensis (Kobayasi & Shimizu) Samson, Luangsa-ard & Thanakitpipattana, comb. nov.

MycoBank number: MB 834912; Index Fungorum number: IF 834912; Facesoffungi number: FoF14500

Basionym: Cordyceps kusanagiensis Kobayasi & Shimizu, Bull. Nat. Sci. Mus. Tokyo, Ser. B, 9: 7. 1983.

Synonyms: Metacordyceps kusanagiensis (Kobayasi & Shimizu) Kepler et al., Mycologia 104: 185. 2012. Metarhizium kusanagiense (Kobayasi & Shimizu) Kepler et al., Mycologia 106: 823. 2014.

Description and illustration: See Kobayasi & Shimizu (1983).

Typus: Japan, Yamagata Prefecture, Kusanagi Spa, on pupa of Lepidoptera, 5 Jul. 1981, Y. Kobayasi & S. Shimizu (holotype TY 93 in TNS).

Note: This monotypic genus is the one of the basal lineages in a supported clade that is separated from plant-associated genera as well as scale insect and whitefly pathogens of the Clavicipitaceae.