Mortierella thereuopodae, a new species with verticillate large sporangiophores, inhabiting fecal pellets of Scutigeromorpha

• A new species of Mortierella from excrements of Scutigeromorpha was described.
• The new species produces verticillately branched large sporangiophores.
• Clustered chlamydospores may function as the trophocysts to form sporangiophores.

A new species, Mortierella thereuopodae, is described for a fungus sporulating on fecal pellets of the centipede Thereuopoda clunifera (Chilopoda). The species produces large cymosely to verticillately branched sporangiophores on well-developed rhizoids with the formation of chlamydospore clusters.