Isaria

Isaria
Isaria sinclairii showing the fruiting bodies and parasitised cicada nymphs
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Clavicipitaceae
Genus: Isaria
Persoon in Roemer, 1794

Isaria is a genus of fungi mostly in the order Hypocreales and family Clavicipitaceae, or by some authorities the Cordycipitaceae.[1] It includes a large number of entomopathogenic species, some of them exploited as biopesticides (e.g. I. fumosorosea): often previously assigned to the genus Paecilomyces. The teleomorph of this genus appears to be Ophiocordyceps.

Species

The Encyclopaedia of Life lists the following species:[2]

References

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