Table 2.

Morphology of Hirsutella species included in Fig. 1. Characters from Hodge (1998) unless specified.

		Conidioma form		Phialides		Conidia
Species	Clade	Mononematous	Synnematous	Morphology	Verruculose	Morphology	Mucous sheath	Sclerotia	Host
Hirsutella citriformis	H. citriformis	No	Yes	Ellipsoid base, tapering abruptly	No	Fusiform	Yes	No	Leaf- & planthoppers
H. cryptosclerotium	H. thompsonii	Yes	No	Basally inflated, inflated apices, sometimes polyphialidic	No	Globose	Yes	Yes	Pseudococcidae
H. fusiformis	H. citriformis	No	Yes	Ellipsoid base, tapering abruptly	No	Fusoid-Cylindric	Yes	No	Crickets
H. gigantea	H. citriformis	No	Yes	Basally inflated	No	Ellipsoid	Yes	No	Lepidoptera
H. guyana	H. guyana	Yes	No	Cylindric base, ortho- or phagiophialide, proximal restriction, sometimes polyphialidic	Neck, sometimes	Ellipsoid	Yes	No	Leafhoppers
H. haptospora	H. guyana	Yes	No	Basally inflated	No	Fusiform	Yes	No	Mites
H. illustris	H. sinensis	Yes	No	Tapering, elongated	Neck	Ellipsoid	Yes	No	Lepidoptera, Aphids
H. kirchneri	H. sinensis	Yes	In culture	Basally inflated, occassionally polyphialidic	Neck	Fusiform	Rare	No	Mites
H. lecaniicola	H. sinensis	Yes	Yes	Basally inflated; polyphialidic & irregular when synnematous	No	Ellipsoid	When mononematous	No	Scale insect
H. liboensis2	H. nodulosa	No	Yes	Basally inflated, apical helix, often polyphialidic	No	Fusiform	Yes	No	Cossidae
H. necatrix	H. thompsonii	Yes	In culture	Basally inflated, verticillate arrangement	Neck, rarely	Subglobose	Occassional	No	Mites
H. nodulosa	H. nodulosa	Yes	No	Tapering, apical helix, rarely polyphialidic	Yes	Fusiform	Yes	No	Mites, Lepidoptera
H. radiata	H. citriformis	No	Yes	Subulate	No	Ovoid	Yes	No	Diptera
H. rhossiliensis	H. sinensis	Yes	No	Basally inflated	No	Ovoid	Yes	No	Nematodes
H. satumaensis	H. nodulosa	No	Yes	Cylindric base	No	Fusiform	Yes	No	Lepidoptera
H. sinensis1	H. sinensis	Yes	No	Subulate, in verticils of 2-4, rarely polyphialidic	No	Ellipsoid	Yes	No	Caterpillar
H. stilbelliformis var. myrmicarum3	Ant pathogen	Rarely	Yes	Subulate	Neck	Ovoid	Yes	No	Myrmica
H. strigosa	H. sinensis	Yes	Rarely	Subulate, elongated, occasionally polyphialidic	Neck	Ellipsoid	Yes	No	Leafhoppers
H. subramaniiani var. myrmicarum3	Ant pathogen	Yes	No	Basally inflated	Neck	Obclavate	Yes	Yes	Myrmica
H. subulata	H. nodulosa	In culture	Yes	Tapering, short	No	Ellipsoid	Yes	No	Lepidoptera
H. thompsonii	H. thompsonii	Yes	Some varieties	Tapering, monosporic	No	Globose	Occassional	No	Mites
H. versicolor	H. guyana	Yes	No	Swollen, tapering abruptly, often polyphialidic	No	Ovoid	Yes	No	Leafhoppers
O. myrmicarum4	Ant pathogen	No	Yes	Subulate	No	Ovoid	Yes	No	Myrmica

¹Liu et al. (2001).

²Zou et al. (2010).

³Evans et al. (2010).

⁴Simmons et al. (2015). Ophiocordyceps myrmicarum is included, because it is only known from its asexual morph.