Lectotypification and synonymization of some Aspicilia species (Megasporaceae, Ascomycota) described by A. Hue from Korea and Japan Author Paukov, Alexander Institute of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, Ural Federal University, Lenin Ave. 51, 620000 Ekaterinburg, Russia: Author Nordin, Anders Author Roux, Claude Author Moon, Kwang Hee Author Davydov, Evgeny text Phytotaxa 2017 2017-01-06 291 1 94 98 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.1.10 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.1.10 1179-3163 13698077 Aspicilia aomoriana Hue (1910: 84) Type ( lectotype , designated here):— JAPAN . Aomori , March 1899 , R . P. Faurie 3528 ( LE L-7519!, isolectotype BM 001107768 [digital photograph!]). Aspicilia aomoriana is externally very similar to the type specimen of Aspicilia verrucigera , which was described in the same paper ( Fig. 1E ). The former was places by Hue into the group III “Hyphae corticis superioris ramosae” while the latter belongs to the group II “Hyphae corticis superioris raro simplicis, saepius ramosae”. According to our measurements conidia of A. aomoriana are (15.8) 16.5–[16.8]–17.1 (18.5) μm long (n=10) that is greater than mentioned by Hue (10–15 μm) and fully agree with those of A. verrucigera ( Nordin et al . 2008 , Paukov et al . 2016 ). The spores of the specimen are mainly not ripe but developed ones are 16.0–20.0 × 9.0–10.5 μm (n=5). This and the next species were described from the northernmost part of Honshu Island. Aspicilia verrucigera has not been included into the Checklist of Japanese lichens and allied fungi ( Kurokawa & Kashiwadani 2006 ) and is reported here as new to Japan .