# Ascosphaera

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{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Ascosphaera callicarpa.png
| image_caption =A) habitat. Phragmites reeds and female Chelostoma florisomne returning with pollen for her brood. B) fecal pellet of C. florisomne larva covered with spore cysts; pale spore balls are visible through the transparent spore cyst wall. C) close-up of spore cyst showing spore balls and smooth, unornamented spore cyst wall. D) spore balls. E) bacilliform ascospores. Scale bars: B = 200 µm, C = 50 µm, C = 10 µm, D = 15 µm, E = 10 µm.
| taxon = Ascosphaera
| authority = [L.S.Olive](/source/L.S.Olive) & Spiltoir (1955)
| type_species = ''Ascosphaera apis''
| type_species_authority = (Maasen ex Claussen) L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955)
| synonyms_ref = 
| synonyms = ''Pericystis'' <small>Betts (1912)<ref name="Betts 1912"/></small>
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
}}

'''''Ascosphaera''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [fungi](/source/fungi) in the family [Ascosphaeraceae](/source/Ascosphaeraceae). It was described in 1955 by mycologists Charles F. Spiltoir and [Lindsay S. Olive](/source/Lindsay_S._Olive).<ref name="Spiltoir 1955"/> Members of the genus are insect pathogens. The [type species](/source/type_species), ''[A.&nbsp;apis](/source/Ascosphaera_apis)'', causes chalkbrood disease in [honey bee](/source/honey_bee)s.<ref name="Capinera 2008"/> The reproductive [ascospore](/source/ascospore)s of the fungus are produced within a unique structure, the spore cyst, or sporocyst.<ref>{{citation |author=Wynns, A.A. |author2=Jensen, A.B. |author3=Eilenberg, J. |author4=James, R. |year=2012 |title=''Ascosphaera subglobosa'', a new spore cyst fungus from North America associated with the solitary bee ''Megachile rotundata'' |journal=Mycologia |volume=104 |issue=1 |pages=108–114 |doi=10.3852/10-047 |pmid=21828215|s2cid=26872248 }}</ref>

==Species==
{{Div col}}
*''[A. acerosa](/source/Ascosphaera_acerosa)''
*''[A. aggregata](/source/Ascosphaera_aggregata)''
*''[A. apis](/source/Ascosphaera_apis)''
*''[A. asterophora](/source/Ascosphaera_asterophora)''
*''[A. atra](/source/Ascosphaera_atra)''
*''[A. callicarpa](/source/Ascosphaera_callicarpa)''<ref name="Wyns 2013"/>
*''[A. celerrima](/source/Ascosphaera_celerrima)''
*''[A. cinnamomea](/source/Ascosphaera_cinnamomea)''
*''[A. duoformis](/source/Ascosphaera_duoformis)''
*''[A. fimicola](/source/Ascosphaera_fimicola)''
*''[A. flava](/source/Ascosphaera_flava)''
*''[A. fusiformis](/source/Ascosphaera_fusiformis)''
*''[A. larvis](/source/Ascosphaera_larvis)''
*''[A. major](/source/Ascosphaera_major)''
*''[A. naganensis](/source/Ascosphaera_naganensis)''
*''[A. osmophila](/source/Ascosphaera_osmophila)''
*''[A. parasitica](/source/Ascosphaera_parasitica)''
*''[A. pollenicola](/source/Ascosphaera_pollenicola)''
*''[A. proliperda](/source/Ascosphaera_proliperda)''
*''[A. scaccaria](/source/Ascosphaera_scaccaria)''
*''[A. solina](/source/Ascosphaera_solina)''
*''[A. subcuticularis](/source/Ascosphaera_subcuticularis)''
*''[A. tenax](/source/Ascosphaera_tenax)''
*''[A. torchioi](/source/Ascosphaera_torchioi)''
*''[A. variegata](/source/Ascosphaera_variegata)''
*''[A. verrucosa](/source/Ascosphaera_verrucosa)''
*''[A. xerophila](/source/Ascosphaera_xerophila)''
{{Div col end}}

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Betts 1912">{{cite journal |author=Betts AD. |title=A bee-hive fungus, ''Pericystis alvei'', gen. et sp. nov. |journal=Annals of Botany |year=1912 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=795–800|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089417 }}</ref>

<ref name="Capinera 2008">{{cite book |author=Capinera JL. |title=Encyclopedia of Entomology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9ITMiiohVQC&pg=PA304 |year=2008 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4020-6242-1 |page=304}}</ref>

<ref name="Spiltoir 1955">{{cite journal |vauthors=Spiltoir CF, Olive LS |title=A reclassification of the genus ''Pericystis'' Betts |journal=Mycologia |year=1955 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=238–44 |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0047/002/0238.htm |doi=10.2307/3755414|jstor=3755414 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

<ref name="Wyns 2013">{{cite journal |vauthors=Wynns AA, Jensen AB, Eilenberg J |year=2013 |title=''Ascosphaera callicarpa'', a new species of bee-loving fungus, with a key to the genus for Europe |journal=[PLoS ONE](/source/PLoS_ONE) |volume=8 |issue=9 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0073419 |doi-access=free |article-number=e73419 |pmid=24086280 |pmc=3783469|bibcode=2013PLoSO...873419W }}</ref>

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==External links==
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