摘要:During a survey to study insect associated fungi, a sooty mould fungus, Leptoxyphium kurandae found in a gut of insect (Dusky Cotton bug) from Western Ghats, Junnar, India was isolated. It is characterized by elongated synnemata consisting of hyphae with bulbous base and at apex an open terminal funnel shaped conidiogenous zone. The hyphae composed of cylindrical cells, constricted at septa and covered with thick mucilaginous layer. Based on morphological characters and sequence comparison of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of rDNA and large subunit of ribosome (LSU), the fungus was identified as Leptoxyphium kurandae , a species not previously known from India.