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There have been many nomenclatural changes in recent years and the Mycota uses species names from the UK Species Inventory (UKSI) maintained by the Natural History Museum, London. The Mycota does not include synonyms, but if a species has been recorded under a different name to that on UKSI it will show without a hyperlink (in black) and the name under which it is recorded will be in blue.
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Entomopathogenic List (53 species)
Acremonium aranearum [Lecanicillium aphanocladii ] (1 record; last record in 1945 )
Acremonium tenuipes [Lecanicillium tenuipes ] (1 record; last record in 1943 )
Akanthomyces lecanii
Batkoa papillata (1 record; last record in 1983 )
Beauveria bassiana (39 records; last record in 2025 )
Beauveria felina (2 records; last record in 2020 )
Byssostilbe stilbigera [Polycephalomyces tomentosus ] (2 records; last record in 1935 )
Conidiobolus tenthredinis [Entomophaga tenthredinis ] (2 records; last record in 1943 )
Cordyceps capitata [Tolypocladium capitatum ] (1 record; last record in 1994 )
Cordyceps entomorrhiza [Ophiocordyceps entomorrhiza ] (13 records; last record in 1958 )
Cordyceps farinosa (1 record; last record in 2024 )
Cordyceps forquignonii [Ophiocordyceps forquignonii ] (1 record; last record in 2001 )
Cordyceps fumosorosea
Cordyceps gracilis [Paraisaria gracilis ] (4 records; last record in 2002 )
Cordyceps longisegmentis [Tolypocladium longisegmentatum ] (1 record; last record in 2010 )
Cordyceps militaris (Scarlet Caterpillarclub) (36 records; last record in 2025 )
Cordyceps ophioglossoides [Tolypocladium ophioglossoides ] (4 records; last record in 2016 )
Cordyceps sphecocephala [Ophiocordyceps sphecocephala ] (2 records; last record in 1956 )
Cordyceps tenuipes
Cordyceps tuberculata (Dwarf Caterpillarclub) (12 records; last record in 1956 )
Entomophaga grylli (5 records; last record in 2021 )
Entomophaga tenthredinis
Entomophaga tipulae (5 records; last record in 2024 )
Entomophthora aphrophorae (5 records; last record in 1988 )
Entomophthora calliphorae (1 record; last record in 1982 )
Entomophthora culicis (5 records; last record in 2022 )
Entomophthora grandis [Entomophthora muscae ] (2 records; last record in 2020 )
Entomophthora muscae (28 records; last record in 2025 )
Entomophthora planchoniana (1 record; last record in 2020 )
Entomophthora schizophorae (3 records; last record in 2024 )
Entomophthora sphaerosperma (3 records; last record in 1955 )
Entomophthora syrphi (2 records; last record in 2024 )
Entomophthora thaxteri (1 record; last record in 1942 )
Entomophthora trinucleata (1 record; last record in 2024 )
Erynia radicans
Furia americana (2 records; last record in 1940 )
Gibellula albolanata
Gibellula arachnophila (1 record; last record in 2021 )
Gibellula aranearum [Gibellula albolanata ] (94 records; last record in 2021 )
Gibellula aranicida
Gibellula pulchra (3 records; last record in 2018 )
Hirsutella acridiorum (6 records; last record in 1966 )
Hirsutella citriformis (2 records; last record in 1945 )
Hirsutella saussurei [Ophiocordyceps humbertii ] (2 records; last record in 1945 )
Hymenostilbe muscaria [Ophiocordyceps forquignonii ] (8 records; last record in 1956 )
Isaria farinosa [Cordyceps farinosa ] (4 records; last record in 2022 )
Isaria friesii (1 record; last record in 2020 )
Isaria fumosorosea [Cordyceps fumosorosea ] (1 record; last record in 2022 )
Lecanicillium aphanocladii
Lecanicillium lecanii [Akanthomyces lecanii ] (1 record; last record in 2024 )
Lecanicillium tenuipes (1 record; last record in 2025 )
Metarhizium marquandii (Waxcap Facepainter) (1 record; last record in 2021 )
Metarhizium rileyi
Neozygites acaridis (1 record; last record in 1955 )
Nomuraea rileyi [Metarhizium rileyi ] (9 records; last record in 1989 )
Ophiocordyceps entomorrhiza
Ophiocordyceps forquignonii (Yellow Waspclub) (1 record; last record in 2016 )
Ophiocordyceps humbertii
Ophiocordyceps sphecocephala
Paecilomyces farinosus [Cordyceps farinosa ] (90 records; last record in 2017 )
Paecilomyces fumosoroseus [Cordyceps fumosorosea ] (1 record; last record in 1952 )
Paecilomyces marquandii [Metarhizium marquandii ] (5 records; last record in 2017 )
Paecilomyces tenuipes [Cordyceps tenuipes ] (1 record; last record in 1981 )
Pandora dipterigena (18 records; last record in 2024 )
Pandora echinospora (1 record; last record in 1942 )
Pandora neoaphidis (10 records; last record in 2024 )
Paraisaria gracilis
Polycephalomyces tomentosus (3 records; last record in 2025 )
Samsoniella scoliopterygis (1 record; last record in 1988 )
Tolypocladium capitatum (Drumstick Truffleclub) (4 records; last record in 2018 )
Tolypocladium longisegmentatum
Tolypocladium ophioglossoides (Snaketongue Truffleclub) (3 records; last record in 2021 )
Torrubiella albolanata [Gibellula albolanata ] (99 records; last record in 2015 )
Torrubiella albotomentosa (6 records; last record in 1956 )
Torrubiella arachnophila [Gibellula arachnophila ] (3 records; last record in 2021 )
Torrubiella aranicida [Gibellula aranicida ] (1 record; last record in 1956 )
Verticillium lecanii [Akanthomyces lecanii ] (8 records; last record in 1945 )
Zoophthora anglica (5 records; last record in 1945 )
Zoophthora aphidis (8 records; last record in 2024 )
Zoophthora crassitunicata (1 record; last record in 2023 )
Zoophthora radicans [Erynia radicans ] (3 records; last record in 2023 )