Phylum Ascomycota
Orders Erysiphales & Laboulbeniales
Class Laboulbeniomycetes
Orders Laboulbeniales and Pyxidiophorales
5 families, 140 genera, > 1800 species
Members of 4/5 families lack hyphae, reduced to thallus attached to host
Parasitize arthropods
Pyxidiophorales
Class Laboulbeniomycetes
Orders Laboulbeniales and Pyxidiophorales
5 families, 140 genera, > 1800 species
Members of 4/5 families lack hyphae, reduced to thallus attached to host
Parasitize arthropods
Pyxidiophorales