Isaria

Isaria
Isaria sinclairii showing the fruiting bodies and parasitised cicada nymphs
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Cordycipitaceae
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.[2]

Moth infected with Isaria farinosa.
  1. ^ eol.org http://eol.org/pages/36823/overview:. Retrieved 2017-06-14. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[title missing]
  2. ^ Sung G-H, Hywel-Jones NL, Sung J-M, Luangsa-ard JJ, Shrestha B, Spatafora JW (2007). "Phylogenetic classification of Cordyceps and the clavicipitaceous fungi". Studies in Mycology. 57: 5–59. doi:10.3114/sim.2007.57.01. PMC 2104736. PMID 18490993.