“…To date, a total of over 500 species of Agaricus are currently recognized. These include many new species from America, Asia, Australia, and Europe (Wang et al, 2015;Kerrigan, 2016;He et al, 2017;Callac and Chen, 2018) and few new species from Africa (Hama et al, 2010;Zhao et al, 2012b;Ling et al, 2021) and Oceania (Geml et al, 2007;Lebel and Syme, 2012;Lebel, 2013). Among the approximately 200 new species described since 2000, more than half have been reported to be from Asia, and a quarter have been reported in America (particularly North America) (Zhao et al, 2011(Zhao et al, , 2016Thongklang et al, 2014a;Liu et al, 2015;Karunarathna et al, 2016;Kerrigan, 2016;Chen et al, 2017;Callac and Chen, 2018;Hyde et al, 2018).…”