Lecanicillium
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Conidia . Scale bars: 10 mm (b, c, e), 5 μm (d, f, g)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Hypocreales |
| Family: | Cordycipitaceae |
| Genus: | Lecanicillium W.Gams & Zare (2001) |
| Type species | |
| Lecanicillium lecanii (Zimm.) Zare & W.Gams (2001)
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Lecanicillium is a genus of fungi in the order Hypocreales and is described as anamorphic Cordycipitaceae; 21 species are currently described.[1] Some of these entomopathogenic fungus species were previously widely known as Verticillium lecanii (Zimmerman) Viegas.[2] This genus was first named and introduced by Rasoul Zare (IRIPP) and Walter Gams (CBS).
Species
The IndexFungorum records the following species:
- Lecanicillium acerosum W. Gams, H.C. Evans & Zare 2001
- Lecanicillium antillanum (R.F. Castañeda & G.R.W. Arnold) Zare & W. Gams 2001
- Lecanicillium aphanocladii Zare & W. Gams 2001
- Lecanicillium aranearum (Petch) Zare & W. Gams 2001
- Lecanicillium araneicola Sukarno & Kurihara 2009
- Lecanicillium attenuatum Zare & W. Gams 2001
- Lecanicillium dimorphum (J.D. Chen) Zare & W. Gams 2001
- Lecanicillium evansii Zare & W. Gams 2001
- Lecanicillium flavidum (W. Gams & Zaayen) W. Gams & Zare 2008
- Lecanicillium fungicola (Preuss) Zare & W. Gams 2008; Anamorphic Cordycipitaceae
- Lecanicillium fungicola var. aleophilum(W. Gams & Zaayen) W. Gams & Zare 2008
- Lecanicillium fungicola var. fungicola (Preuss) Zare & W. Gams 2008
- Lecanicillium fusisporum (W. Gams) Zare & W. Gams 2001
- Lecanicillium kalimantanense Kurihara & Sukarno 2009
- Lecanicillium lecanii (Zimm.) Zare & W. Gams 2001: pathogens of soft scale insects (Coccidae)
- Lecanicillium longisporum (Petch) Zare & W. Gams 2001: pathogens of aphids
- whiteflies and thrips
- Lecanicillium nodulosum (Petch) Zare & W. Gams 2001
- Lecanicillium pissodis Kope & I. Leal 2006
- Lecanicillium psalliotae (Treschew) Zare & W. Gams 2001
- Lecanicillium saksenae (Kushwaha) Kurihara & Sukarno 2009
- Lecanicillium tenuipes (Petch) Zare & W. Gams 2001
- Lecanicillium wallacei (H.C. Evans) H.C. Evans & Zare 2008
At least 15 products based on Lecanicillium spp. have been, or are in the process of being commercialized as
biological pesticides, against a variety of pests in numerous countries worldwide.[3]