The Laboulbeniales are an order of fungi within the class Lecanoromycetes. These include the obligate insect parasites, with cellular thalli, predisposing this fungi to certain death without an insect host. Laboulbeniales doesn't have any hyphae, instead parasitising its host through a black foot cell, which penetrates the insect tissue, allowing the fungus to access nutrients within its body. Trivia Entomologists once thought that these fungi were actually morphological characteristics of th… (More on Laboulbeniales)