Auxarthron conjugatum (Onygenaceae) and Myxotrichum deflexum (Myxotrichaceae) are distantly related cleistothecial (gymnothecial) ascomycetes that form ascomata with strikingly similar peridia in which rigid, branched and anastomosed, thick-walled hyphae create a cage- or mesh-like enclosure (reticuloperidium). We tested the hypothesis that the reticuloperidium plays a role in dispersal mediated by arthropods by enclosing ascomata of these fungi together with flies from the family Sarcophagidae. Gymnothecia of both fungi were picked up easily when the stiff hairs of the flies impaled the ascomata by passing through the interhyphal spaces of the reticuloperidium. Ascospore release from the gymnothecia then occurred during grooming activities during which the limbs of the flies caught the ascoma appendages causing the peridium to be torn apart. This adaptation to arthropod morphology and behaviour is interpreted as the driving force behind the evolution of reticuloperidia in unrelated groups of cleistothecial ascomycetes.
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