Acta Mycologica DOI: 10.5586/am.1125 ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER Publication history Received: 2018-12-02 Accepted: 2019-05-06 Ophiocordyceps stylophora Published: 2019-11-18 (Ophiocordycipitaceae) in Poland: new Handling editor Andrzej Szczepkowski, Faculty of Forestry, Warsaw University of localities and host species Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland Authors’ contributions Piotr Chachuła1*, Grzegorz Vončina1, Piotr Stanczak2 PC, PS: research designing, feld 1 works, writing the manuscript; Pieniński Park Narodowy, Jagiellońska 107B, 34-450 Krościenko nad Dunajcem, Poland 2 GV: feld works, writing the Independent researcher, Poland manuscript * Corresponding author. Email:
[email protected] Funding Research partially fnanced by KRAMEKO Sp. z o.o., Kraków and Abstract partially from private funds. Ophiocordyceps stylophora, a rare fungus species in Europe, was frst recorded in one Competing interests locality in Poland in 2011. Tis paper concerns 33 specimens found between 2011 No competing interests have and 2015 in 23 new localities in fve areas. Amongst the described specimens, one was been declared. found on the Tenebrionidae beetle, and others grew on Elateridae larvae. For the frst time, Tenebrionidae larvae have been observed as hosts of O. stylophora. Five new Copyright notice positions have been located in the southern part of Poland in the area of Oszast and © The Author(s) 2019. This is an Open Access article distributed Reberce nature reserves, Babia Góra and Roztocze national parks, and one has been under the terms of the found in the northern part of Poland, in the Elbląg Upland Landscape Park. Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits Keywords redistribution, commercial and noncommercial, provided that Hypocreales; Cordyceps; entomopathogenic fungi; fungal ecology; rare species; the article is properly cited.