Raffaelea

Raffaelea is a genus of ambrosia fungi in the family Ophiostomataceae. It was circumscribed by mycologists Josef Adolph von Arx and Grégoire L. Hennebert in 1965 with Raffaelea ambrosiae as the type species.^[1] The genus is named in honor of Italian botanist Raffaele Ciferri.^[1]

Raffaelea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Ophiostomatales
Family:	Ophiostomataceae
Genus:	Raffaelea Arx & Hennebert (1965)
Type species
Raffaelea ambrosiae Arx & Hennebert (1965)

Laurel wilt is a disease of redbay (Persea borbonia) caused by Raffaelea lauricola. This fungus, harbored in the mycangium of the redbay ambrosia beetle Xyleborus glabratus, is in the form of a budding yeast in the mycangium and a filamentous fungus in galleries of the beetle.^[2] Several species also resident in the beetle were described as new to science in 2010: R. ellipticospora, R. fusca, R. subalba, and R. subfusca.^[3]

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;^[4]

• Raffaelea aguacate D.R. Simmons, Dreaden & R.C. Ploetz (2016)
• Raffaelea albimanens D.B. Scott & J.W. du Toit (1970)
• Raffaelea amasae (Gebhardt) T.C. Harr. (2010)
• Raffaelea ambrosiae Arx & Hennebert (1965)
• Raffaelea arxii D.B. Scott & J.W. du Toit (1970)
• Raffaelea barbata (Ellis & Everh.) D. Hawksw. (1979)
• Raffaelea borbonica M. Procter, M.J. Wingf. & Marinc. (2020)
• Raffaelea brunnea (L.R. Batra) T.C. Harr. (2010)
• Raffaelea campbelliorum D.R. Simmons, A. Campb. & R.C. Ploetz (2016)
• Raffaelea canadensis L.R. Batra (1968)
• Raffaelea castellanii (Pinoy) de Hoog (1974)
• Raffaelea crossotarsi D.R. Simmons & Y.T. Huang (2016)
• Raffaelea cyclorhipidii D.R. Simmons & Y.T. Huang (2016)
• Raffaelea deltoideospora (Olchow. & J. Reid) Z.W. de Beer & T.A. Duong (2015)
• Raffaelea ellipticospora T.C. Harr., Aghayeva & Fraedrich (2010)
• Raffaelea fusca T.C. Harr., Aghayeva & Fraedrich (2010)
• Raffaelea gnathotrichi (L.R. Batra) T.C. Harr. (2010)
• Raffaelea hennebertii D.B. Scott & J.W. du Toit (1970)
• Raffaelea lauricola T.C. Harr., Fraedrich & Aghayeva (2008)
• Raffaelea montetyi M. Morelet (1998)
• Raffaelea promiscua W.J. Nel (2021)
• Raffaelea quercina M.L. Inácio, E. Sousa & F. Nóbrega (2021)
• Raffaelea quercivora Kubono & Shin. Ito (2002)
• Raffaelea quercus-mongolicae K.H. Kim, Y.J. Choi & H.D. Shin (2009)
• Raffaelea rapaneae Musvuugwa, Z.W. de Beer, Dreyer & Roets (2015)
• Raffaelea santoroi Guerrero (1966)
• Raffaelea scolytodis M. Kolařík (2009)
• Raffaelea seticollis (R.W. Davidson) Z.W. de Beer & T.A. Duong (2015)
• Raffaelea subalba T.C. Harr., Aghayeva & Fraedrich (2010)
• Raffaelea subfusca T.C. Harr., Aghayeva & Fraedrich (2010)
• Raffaelea sulcati A. Funk (1970)
• Raffaelea sulphurea (L.R. Batra) T.C. Harr. (2010)
• Raffaelea tritirachium L.R. Batra (1968)
• Raffaelea vaginata Musvuugwa, Z.W. de Beer, Dreyer & Roets (2015)
• Raffaelea variabilis B. Sutton (1975)
• Raffaelea xyleborini D.R. Simmons & C.C. Bateman (2016)