Myrmecopterula
Myrmecopterula is a genus of fungi in the family Pterulaceae. Basidiocarps are clavarioid and are associated with ant domestication by members of the genus Apterostigma. Taxonomy Myrmecopterula was created in 2020 when the Pterulaceae was reclassified based on phylogenetic analysis and split into Pterula, Myrmecopterula, Pterulicium. and Phaeopterula. Myrmecopterula is described as differing from Pterula in the presence of a cotton-like subiculum. In the context of mycology the subiculum is defined as a net, cottony or crust like growth of mycelium from which hyphae or fruiting bodies are produced. The type species, M. moniliformis was originally classified as Lachnocladium moniliforme by the German mycologist Paul Christoph Hennings in 1904. It was classified as Thelephora clavarioides by the Portuguese mycologist Camille Torrend in 1914. It was reclassified as Pterula moniliformis by the English mycologist Edred John Henry Corner in 1952. M. nudihortorum and M. velohortorum were originally classified as Pterula species by the American mycologist Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger in 2014. These species were ultimately all reclassified as Myrmecopterula by the mycologists Caio A. Leal-Dutra, Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger and Gareth W. Griffith in 2020. Prior to being formally classified, Myrmecopterula velohortorum was referred to as ant cultivar G2 in several