Allocordyceps | |
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An image of a carpenter ant species, the type of species that Allocordyceps parasitize. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi
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Division: | Ascomycota
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Phylum: | Glomeromycota
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Class: | Sordariomyces
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Order: | Hypocreales
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Family: | Clavicipitaceae
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Genus: | Allocordyceps Poinar
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Type species | |
Allocordyceps baltica |
Allocordyceps is a genus of parasitic fungus in the order Hypocreales that parasitizes carpenter ants.[1][2] The fossil of Allocordyceps represents the oldest known fossil of an ant-parasitizing fungus before Ophiocordyceps. The only species within this genus is Allocordyceps baltica.[3][4]