New Localities of Ropalospora phaeoplaca in Japan and Far East of Russia with ITS nrDNA Sequences

摘要

Six localities from Honshu in Japan and one from Primorye Territory in Far East of Russia are newly added for the distribution of Ropalospora phaeoplaca. Although this species is known from main land of China, Taiwan, Korea and Far East of Russia, only the type locality was known in Japan before the present report. The ITS nrDNA region was sequenced from the fresh materials using in this study, and the maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree is also presented. The tree shows that the samples of R. phaeoplaca formed a monophyletic clade that is a sister to the clade of R. viridis, and they are sister to R. lugubris clade. Although R. chlorantha is considered to be closely related to R. phaeoplaca, the ITS nrDNA sequence could not be obtained in this study.