FIGURE 1 in Gibellula aurea sp. nov. (Ascomycota, Cordycipitaceae): a new golden spiderdevouring fungus from a Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

FIGURE 1. Morphological description of Gibellula aurea. (a) Spider Macrophyes pacoti (Anyphaenidae) parasitized by G. aurea exhibiting one synnema (arrow) growing from the host's abdomen. (b–g) G. aurea visualized in the light microscope and (h–l) in the fluorescent microscope with UV light. (b, h) Inflated and fertile tip of synnema; (c) Conidiophore, stipe with verrucose wall, conidial head spherical; (d) Conidial head globose, vesicle ellipsoidal, metulae ellipsoidal, and phialides cylindrical; (e, j) Conidia ellipsoidal, with apiculate ends; (f, i) Granulomanus-like conidiophores; (g) Conidiogenous cells; (k) Spider leg (brown) covered by hyphae (blue) at the beginning of the infection; (l) Setae of spider leg involved by fungal hyphae. Scale bars: b, k, h = 100 µm, l = 50 µm, c, d, e, f, g, i, j = 10 µm.