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Allocordyceps

Fungi

Family: Clavicipitaceae

1 species in the Library

About

Allocordyceps is an extinct genus of parasitic fungus in the order Hypocreales that parasitized carpenter ants. The fossil of Allocordyceps baltica, from the Baltic Amber, represents the oldest known fossil of an ant-parasitizing fungus before Ophiocordyceps.

Summary from Wikipedia