| metarhiziopsis microspora gen. et sp. nov. associated with the elongate hemlock scale. | a sporodochial fungus collected from the elongate hemlock scale, fiorinia externa (ferris) in coventry, connecticut, is described. this fungus has characteristics of both metarhizium and myrothecium but develops setae surrounding white to buff sporodochia and dry conidia in chains, a combination of characters found in neither genus. phylogenetic analyses of the complete small subunit ribosomal dna (ssu), partial ef1-alpha, and complete 5.8s ribosomal dna and internal transcribed spacers (its) 1 ... | 2008 | 18751553 |