aspergillus insolitus aspergillus insolitus aspergillus insolitus is a species of fungus in the genus aspergillus. it is from the polypaecilum section. the species was first described in 2014. the genome of a. insolitus was in 2016 sequenced as a part of the aspergillus whole-genome sequencing project - a project dedicated to performing whole-genome sequencing of all members of the genus aspergillus. the genome assembly size was 23.18 mbp. aspergillus insolitus scientific classification kingdom: fungi division: ascomycota class: eurotiomycetes order: eurotiales family: trichocomaceae genus: aspergillus species: a. insolitus binomial name aspergillus insolitus(g. smith) houbraken, visagie & samson (2014) growth and morphology a. insolitus 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 insolitus growing on cya plate aspergillus insolitus growing on meaox plate