Revision of the Microsphaeropsis complex with addition of four new Paramicrosphaeropsis L. W. Hou, L. Cai & Crous species from Zagrosian forest trees in Iran Author Artand, Saeid Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province (Iran) Author Mehrabi-Koushki, Mehdi Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province (Iran) and Biotechnology and Bioscience Research Center, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province (Iran) mhdmhrb @ scu. ac. ir; mhdmhrb @ gmail. com (corresponding author) Author Tabein, Saeid Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province (Iran) Author Hyde, Kevin D. Author Jayawardena, Ruvishika S. Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, 57100 (Thailand) text Cryptogamie, Mycologie 2022 2022-12-20 20 7 159 175 http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2022v43a7 journal article 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2022v43a7 cdf2df6f-1996-4fee-852b-8626d1898298 1776-100X 7815336 Microsphaeropsis cytisi (W.J.Li & K.D.Hyde) M.Mehrabi-Koushki, K.D.Hyde & Jayaward., comb. nov. Neomicrosphaeropsis cytisi W.J.Li & K.D.Hyde , Fungal Diversity 80: 38 ( Hyde et al . 2016 ). MYCOBANK. — MB 841487. DESCRIPTION See Hyde et al . (2016) . NOTES Hyde et al . (2016) introduced Neomicrosphaeropsis cytisi for a saprobic fungus isolated from dead stem of Cytisus sp. ( Fabaceae ) in Italy . The analyses of combined LSU, ITS, tub 2 and rpb 2 sequence data for the Microsphaeropsis complex revealed that the type strain of Neomicrosphaeropsis cytisi (MFLUCC 13-0396) clustered within Microsphaeropsis lineage ( Fig. 1 ). Therefore, we transfer Neomicrosphaeropsis cytisi to Microsphaeropsis . Nucleotide comparison of Microsphaeropsis cytisi (W.J.Li & K.D.Hyde) M.Mehrabi-Koushki, K.D.Hyde & Jayaward. , comb. nov. with Neomicrosphaeropsis species showed a difference of 0.6% (3/521 bp) in the LSU region, 3% (13/431 bp) in the ITS and 10.5% (46/438 bp) in the rpb 2.