Additions to Italian Pleosporinae, including Italica heraclei sp. nov.

Abstract

Our investigation of pleosporalean fungi performed from terrestrial habitats in provinces of Arezzo (Tuscany region), Forlì-Cesena and Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna region) in Italy. We yielded a novel species, Italica heraclei (Phaeosphaeriaceae), a novel host record of Pseudoophiobolus mathieui (Phaeosphaeriaceae) and the second Italian record of Phomatodes nebulosa (Didymellaceae). Species boundaries were defined using detailed morphological illustrations, comprehensive descriptions and multi-gene phylogeny of maximum likelihood (ML), maximum parsimony (MP) and Bayesian posterior probability (BYPP) analyses. Our findings expanded the knowledge on host and distribution ranges of the newly isolated pleosporalean taxa in Italy.

Keywords

• one new species
• Ascomycota
• Dothideomycetes
• inte