04-11-2025 09:07
Josep Torres
Hello.A suspected Hymenoscyphus sprouting on a thi
04-11-2025 12:43
Edvin Johannesen
Hi! One more found on old Populus tremula log in O
03-11-2025 21:34
Edvin Johannesen
These tiny (0.4-0.5 mm diam.), whitish, short-stip
28-10-2025 15:37
Carl FarmerI'd be grateful for any suggestions for this strik
03-11-2025 16:30
Hans-Otto Baral
Hello I want to ask you if you have found this ye
This Cordyceps was growing from a fly which should make it Cordyceps forquignoniiC but the only information I have says that the "head" should be 1-2 mm and globose.Cordyceps sphecocephalaon the other had should be 3-6 x 1.5-3 mm but on wasp.
This specimen was 4 x 3 mm
What should I look for to distinguish the species?
Thanks
Mal
here a key to this genus.
rgeards
Catalogue-des-Cordyceps-CLL-2-0001-0001.doc
the following file is updated:
http://www.ascofrance.fr/uploads/document/Catalogue-des-Cordyceps-CLL-4-0001-version-definitive-0001.doc
Regards,
Christian
Mal
note the passage in the document to which Christian has provided the link:
"Littérature : on trouve cette espèce sous le nom de C. dittmari, C. sphecocephala f. ditmarii (=ditmari), C. sphecophila, ou C. sphecocephala (Les récoltes européennes doivent être rapportées à Ophiocordyceps ditmari)." (my underlining - I think the problem is that some of the other names have been variously interpreted in the past).
cheers
Chris
It is certainly Ophiocordycerps ditmari. I have attached two photos taken by a friend a week ago.
Regards.
Michel.
Hi to all,
Traditionally, the specimens collected on wasps were named C. sphecocephala or O. ditmari and the specimens on flies C. forquignonii. We have studied both specimens, cultures and molecular data indicate that they are the same species.
Cordyceps forquignonii Quelet has never been collected since the publication and nobody really knows what it is. Holotype disappeared and we have only an illustration, which contains numerous incoherences.
Regards,
Christian