<em><strong>Niveomyces</strong></em> <strong>and</strong> <em><strong>Pseudoniveomyces</strong></em> <strong>gen. nov. </strong>(ITS-LSU-<em>TEF1</em>) <strong> </strong>

The 3-loci phylogeny (ITS-LSU-<em>TEF1</em>) revealed that the fourteen specimens exhibiting <em>Sporothrix</em>-like asexual morphs (i.e. <em>Niveomyces</em> spp. and <em>Pseudoniveomyces</em> gen. nov.) included in this study formed two strongly supported monophyletic clades; one included <em>N. insectorum</em> (= <em>S. insectorum</em>, CBS756.73) and <em>N. coronatus</em> (NY04434800) (i.e. the genus <em>Niveomyces</em>, BS = 78 and 1.00 Bayesian posterior probability), branching as a sister clade to <em>Pseudogibellula</em> <em>formicarum</em>, and another independent clade (<em>Pseudoniveomyces</em> gen. nov., represented by <em>P. blattae</em> sp. nov. with 100% support), which branches as a sister taxon to a clade comprising <em>Gibellula</em>, <em>Hevansia</em> and <em>Jenniferia</em>. Four, fully-supported subclades could be observed within <em>Niveomyces,</em> with one subclade containing both <em>N. insectorum</em> (= <em>S. insectorum</em>) and the recently proposed type species for <em>Niveomyces</em>, <em>N. coronatus</em> (Araújo et al. 2022).