Arachnomyces

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

{{Italic title}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Arachnomyces bostrychodes ARevisionOfMalbranchea-LikeFungi Fig 3D.webp

| image_caption = A. bostrychodes reproductive hyphae separating into arthroconidia

| taxon = Arachnomyces

| authority = Massee & E.S. Salmon (1902)

| parent_authority = Gibas, Sigler & Currah (2022)

| grandparent_authority = Gibas, Sigler & Currah (2022)

| type_species = Arachnomyces nitidus

| type_species_authority=Massee & E.S. Salmon (1902)

| synonyms = Onychocola {{small|Sigler (1990)}}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• A. bostrychodes
• A. flavidulus
• A. glareosus
• A. graciliformis
• A. gracilis
• A. jinanicus
• A. kanei
• A. minimus
• A. minutus
• A. nitidus
• A. nodosetosus
• A. peruvianus
• A. pilosus
• A. scleroticus
• A. sulphureus
• A. validus

}}

Arachnomyces is a genus of cleistothecial ascomycete fungi described in 1902,{{cite journal|last=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }} of which the anamorph (asexual) stage is the genus Onychocola.{{cite journal|title=Phylogeny of the genus Arachnomyces and its anamorphs and the establishment of Arachnomycetales, a new eurotiomycete order in the Ascomycota|journal=Studies in Mycology|vauthors=((Gibas CFC)), Sigler L, Summerbell RC, Currah RS|volume=47|pages=131-139|date=2002|url=https://uamh.ca/Research/_/media/uamh/NotInUse/Unused4/2002_Stud_Mycol_Phylogeny_Arachnomyces.pdf}} Although morphologically similar to members of other families, the fungus now belongs to its own monotypic family Arachnomycetaceae, which is the only family in the monotypic order Arachnomycetales.{{cite journal|display-authors=6|journal=Mycosphere|date=18 March 2020|title=Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa|doi=10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8|vauthors=Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, ((Al-Ani LKT)), Tedersoo L, Haelewaters D, Rajeshkumar KC, Zhao R, Aptroot A, Leontyev DV, Saxena RK, Tokarev YS, Dai DQ, Letcher PM, Stephenson SL, Ertz D, Lumbsch HT, Kukwa M, Issi IV, Madrid H, ((Phillips AJL)), Selbmann L, Pfliegler WP, Horváth E, Bensch K, Kirk PM, Kolaříková K, Raja HA, Radek R, Papp V, Dima B, Ma J, Malosso E, Takamatsu S, Rambold G, Gannibal PB, Triebel D, Gautam AK, Avasthi S, Suetrong S, Timdal E, Fryar SC, Delgado G, Réblová M, Doilom M, Dolatabadi S, Pawłowska JZ, Humber RA, Kodsueb R, Sánchez-Castro I, Goto BT, ((Silva DKA)), de Souza FA, Oehl F, da Silva GA, Silva IR, Błaszkowski J, Jobim K, Maia LC, Barbosa FR, Fiuza PO, Divakar PK, Shenoy BD, Castañeda-Ruiz RF, Somrithipol S, Lateef AA, Karunarathna SC, Tibpromma S, Mortimer PE, Wanasinghe DN, Phookamsak R, Xu J, Wang Y, Tian F, Alvarado P, Li DW, Kušan I, Matočec N, Mešić A, Tkalčec Z, ((Maharachchikumbura SSN)), Papizadeh M, Heredia G, Wartchow F, Bakhshi M, Boehm E, Youssef N, Hustad VP, Lawrey JD, ((Santiago ALCMA)), ((Bezerra JDP)), Souza-Motta CM, Firmino AL, Tian Q, Houbraken J, Hongsanan S, Tanaka K, Dissanayake AJ, Monteiro JS, Grossart HP, Suija A, Weerakoon G, Etayo J, Tsurykau A, Vázquez V, Mungai P, Damm U, Li QR, Zhang H, Boonmee S, Lu YZ, Becerra AG, Kendrick B, Brearley FQ, Motiejūnaitė J, Sharma B, Khare R, Gaikwad S, ((Wijesundara DSA)), Tang LZ, He MQ, Flakus A, Rodriguez-Flakus P, Zhurbenko MP, ((McKenzie EHC)), Stadler M, Bhat DJ, Liu JK, Raza M, Jeewon R, Nassonova ES, Prieto M, ((Jayalal RGU)), Erdoğdu M, Yurkov A, Schnittler M, Shchepin ON, Novozhilov YK, ((Silva-Filho AGS)), Gentekaki E, Liu P, Cavender JC, Kang Y, Mohammad S, Zhang LF, Xu RF, Li YM, Dayarathne MC, Ekanayaka AH, Wen TC, Deng CY, Pereira OL, Navathe S, Hawksworth DL, Fan XL, Dissanayake LS, Kuhnert E, Grossart HP, Thines M|volume=11|issue=1|pages=1060-1456|issn=20777019|doi-access=free|hdl=10481/61998|hdl-access=free}}{{cite journal|first1=Bing-Da|last1=Sun|first2=Yu-Guang|last2=Zhou|first3=Amanda-Juan|last3=Chen|first4=Jos|last4=Houbraken|title=Phylogeny and a new species of the genus Arachnomyces (Arachnomycetaceae)|journal=Phytotaxa|volume=394|issue=1|date=2019|pages=089-097|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.394.1.6|url=https://uamh.ca/Research/_/media/uamh/NotInUse/Unused4/2002_Stud_Mycol_Phylogeny_Arachnomyces.pdf}}