Need help turning Entomopathogenic Fungi into a collection project.
I would like to turn this into a collection project, but I would appreciate some help from mycologists in developing the taxon list. Below is what we have so far. Are we missing any groups that should be included? Do any of the groups listed have subgroups that need to be excluded?
- Entomophthorales, excluding:
Laboulbeniales - all
Ascosphaeraceae - all
Myriangiaceae - all
Clavicipitaceae include only:
- Conoideocrella
- Hypocrella
- Metarhizium
- Moelleriella
- Nigelia
- Orbiocrella
- Pochonia
- Purpureomyces
- Regiocrella
- Samuelsia
Cordycipitaceae include only:
- Akanthomyces excluding:
Ophiocordycipitaceae include only:
- Drechmeria gunnii
- Hirsutella excluding:
Polycephalomyces excluding:
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Not all members of the Ophiocordycipitaceae are entomopathogenic—e.g. the mycoparasitic lineages of Tolypocladium (T. capitatum, T. ophioglossoides etc.), and Polycephalomyces tomentosus. In fact many or most Polycephalomyces are likely mycoparasites, the ecology is not clear. I think there are also some other exceptions within Ophiocordycipitaceae and Cordycipitaceae.
There are several other entomopathogenic genera missing from the Clavicipitaceae—Sungia, Yosiokobayasia, Purpureomyces, Nigelia, Papiliomyces, Pochonia, Samuelsia. You might want to check the list I made in the project description for the group, N. American Cordyceps Sensu Lato (although that list is more inclusive—not just entomopathogens):
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/north-american-cordyceps-sensu-lato
Thanks, I have added the Clavicipitaceae genera that are in the iNat database to the list above. It sounds like the best thing to do for Ophiocordycipitaceae and Cordycipitaceae is then to add only the genera that are known to be entomophagous. I'll start by adding the ones we have already in the project. I'll also check to see which of the genera in your N. American Cordyceps Sensu Lato list are in the iNat database and see if I can find information about their hosts.
These Tolypocladium species are also entomopathogenic:
Tolypocladium cylindrosporum, Tolypocladium dujiaolongae, Tolypocladium extinguens, Tolypocladium fumosum, Tolypocladium inegoense, Tolypocladium toriharamontanum
Many Hirsutella species are only known from soil, (but may have an entomopathogenic stage yet to be discovered).
For the Clavacipitaceae, you may want to add (if they're in the iNat database):
Aschersonia, Conoideocrella, Keithomyces neogunnii, Metacordyceps (a repressed genus but at least one species awaits a valid comb. nov.), Petchia.
For Cordycipitaceae: Evlachovaea, Flavocillium bifurcatum, Isaria (I guess iNat has lumped Isaria into Cordyceps for the time being, but I don't think that was a legitimate move since Isaria is a Polyphyletic group only partly falling within Cordyceps s.s.), Lecanicillium, Neotorrubiella, Parengyodontium, Simplicillium.
For the Ophiocordycipitaceae:
Hymenostilbe, Paraisaria, Perennicordyceps, Polycephalomyces.
Again for some of the above genera, not all members are entomopathogenic. That will make it tricky to make this a collection project, especially since often these fungi can only easily be ID'd to family or order.
I have added more of the taxa you suggested to the list. As you noted, some are currently synonyms and others are not yet in the iNat database at all. I'll let the mycologists sort out the complicated bits. We can always adjust the project inclusion and exclusion criteria as taxa get added or revised.
One important thing that we would lose when turning this into a collection project is the ability to include observations that are clearly entomopathogenic fungi but that have not yet been identified to any of the groups included in the collection project. I think it's very important that these not be lost. So I think what I am going to do is ceate the collection project from the taxon list we developed, but keep this traditional project and rededicate it to UNIDENTIFIED Entomopathogenic Fungi. I can then create an umbrella project that will unite the observations of both projects, so we'll have the automatically aggregated observations from the taxon list as well as the ones that were manually added by project participants.
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