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Found emerging from a dead gnat in a humidity chamber. Assumed to be Erynia sp. based on macroscopic features (couldnt photograph)

N. cf thromboides is known from gnats (also originally described from mites that look a lot like the mite that was attached to this gnat…), but isn’t noted to have villose conidia so this may be Conidiobolus coronatus but I can’t find confirmation of that species on gnats.

Last photo shows villose conidia. Insanely large nucleated germ tubes (red bubbly tubes) with spindly conidiophores producing one apical conidia

The closest sequence in Genbank is at 82% - except for one soil fungus sequence from North Carolina that's 99.18% similar. This is likely an undescribed species or a species that has been described a long time ago but has not been sequenced.

Near oak and other hardwoods in moss in a peninsula in Ohrbach Lake