2 Mei Q, Cheng XX, Qian WC et al (2021) Pestalotiopsis trachicarpicola, a novel pathogen causes twig blight of Pinus bungeana (Pinaceae: Pinoideae) in China. I Pestalotiopsis i -like isolates were obtained from symptomatic tissues by histological isolation method (Mei et al. [2]), and one representative isolate FJSQ-1 was selected for identification.