Moelleriella – Facesoffungi number: FoF 13086

Moelleriella Bres., Boll. Soc. bot. ital. 44: 292 (1897)

MycoBank number: MB 3231; Index Fungorum number: IF 3231; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13086; 39 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 17 species with sequence data.

Type species – Moelleriella sulphurea (Bres.) Bres.

Notes – This genus is entomopathogenic (Chaverri et al. 2008). The asexual morphs are aschersonia-like (Chaverri et al. 2008). It infects scale insects and whiteflies and produces bright coloured, pulvinate or discoid stromata or conidiomata, superficial or embedded perithecia, cylindrical asci, filiform multiseptate ascospores that disarticulate at maturity inside the ascus and fusiform conidia (Chaverri et al. 2008).

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