aspergillus arenarioides aspergillus arenarioides aspergillus arenarioides is a species of fungus in the genus aspergillus. it is from the petersonii section. the species was first described in 2014. aspergillus arenarioides scientific classification kingdom: fungi division: ascomycota class: eurotiomycetes order: eurotiales family: trichocomaceae genus: aspergillus species: a. arenarioides binomial name aspergillus arenarioidesvisagie, hirooka & samson (2014) growth and morphology a. arenarioides has been cultivated on both czapek yeast extract agar (cya) plates and malt extract agar oxoid® (meaox) plates. the growth morphology of the colonies can be seen in the pictures below. aspergillus arenarioides growing on cya plate aspergillus arenarioides growing on meaox plate