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.