Beauveria
Beauveria Vuill., Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 59: 40 (1912)
Sordariomycetes, Hypocreomycetidae, Hypocreales, Cordycipitaceae
Index Fungorum number: IF 7346; 40 morphological species (Index Fungorum 2020), 25 species with sequence data.
Type species – Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill., Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 59: 40 (1912)
Generic description: see Rehne et al. (2011).
Notes: Beauveria was introduced by Vuillemin (1912) by transferring “Botrytis bassiana” and “Botrytis effusa” from Botrytis to Beauveria (Vuillemin 1912). Species of this genus are found worldwide and are parasitic on insects. The sexual morph of the species are cordyceps-like (Li et al. 2001, Rehner et al. 2011). The genus infects insects and has basally-inflated conidiogenous cells (Li et al. 2001, Rehner et al. 2011). (Adopted from Hyde et al. 2020)
Other species:
Beauveria amorpha (Höhn.) Minnis, S.A. Rehner & Humber
Beauveria asiatica S.A. Rehner & Humber
Beauveria australis S.A. Rehner & Humber
Beauveria baoshanensis Z.H. Chen & L. Xu
Beauveria brongniartii (Sacc.) Petch
Beauveria caledonica Bissett & Widden
Beauveria gryllotalpidicola Luangsa-ard, Tasan., Khons., Thanakitp. & Somrith
Beauveria kipukae S.A. Rehner & Humber
Beauveria malawiensis S.A. Rehner & Aquino de Muro
Beauveria mimosiformis Khons., Thanakitp., Kobmoo & Luangsa-ard
Beauveria pseudobassiana S.A. Rehner & Humber
Beauveria sinensis Ming J. Chen, Z.Z. Li & B. Huang
Beauveria sungii S.A. Rehner & Humber
Beauveria varroae S.A. Rehner & Humber
Beauveria vermiconia de Hoog & V. Rao
Beauveria yunnanensis Z.H. Chen & L. Xu
References:
Hyde KD et al. (2020) Refined families of Sordariomycetes. Mycosphere 11(1), 305–1059.
Rehner SA, Minnis AM, Sung GH, Luangsa-ard JJ, Devotto L, Humber RA 2011 – Phylogeny and systematics of the anamorphic, entomopathogenic genus Beauveria. Mycologia 103(5), 1055–1073.
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