Isaria

Isaria is a genus of fungi mostly in the order Hypocreales and family Clavicipitaceae, or by some authorities the Cordycipitaceae. 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: • Isaria abietina Höhn. 1909

• Isaria abutii Lloyd 1923

• Isaria acaricida Pat.

• Isaria acervata Massee 1901

• Isaria acicularis Pat. 1897

• Isaria acuta Preuss

• Isaria agaricina Pers. 1797

• * Isaria agaricina var. agaricina Pers. 1797

• * Isaria agaricina var. petiolaris Alb. & Schwein. 1805

• Isaria aggregata Cooke & Massee 1890

• Isaria alba J. F. H. Beyma 1928

• Isaria albida (Fr.) Sacc.

• Isaria albiziae Pat.

• Isaria alborosea Penz. & Sacc. 1904

• Isaria ambigua P. Karst.

• Isaria americana P. Karst.

• Isaria amoene-rosea Henn. 1902

• Isaria amorpha Höhn. 1909

• Isaria anisopliae (Metschn.) R. H. Pettit 1895

• * Isaria anisopliae var. americana R.H. Pettit 1895

• * Isaria anisopliae var. anisopliae (Metschn.) R.H. Pettit 1895

• Isaria arachnicida Speg. 1898

• Isaria arachnophila Ditmar 1817

• Isaria aranearum Schwein. 1822

• Isaria araneosa Speg. 1910

• Isaria arborea Pat.

• Isaria arbuscula Bres. & Roum. or Har. 1893

• Isaria arcyrioides Berk. & Broome 1875

• Isaria argentina Speg. 1898

• Isaria asamaensis Aoki 1957

• Isaria aspergilliformis Rostr.

• Isaria aurantiaca Berk. & Broome 1875

• Isaria aviaria Sacc.

• Isaria barberi Giard 1894

• Isaria basili (Taylor) Kobayasi 1941

• Isaria bialowieziensis Koval 1977

• Isaria bicolor Schwein. 1832

• Isaria brachiata (Batsch) Schumach. 1803

• Isaria brevis Berk. & M.A. Curtis 1874

• Isaria briardii (Vuill.) Sacc. & D. Sacc.

• Isaria bulbosa Nees 1816

• Isaria buntingii Lloyd 1916

• Isaria buquetii (Mont. & C. P. Robin) Lloyd 1922

• Isaria byssoidea Pers.

• Isaria calva (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr. 1832

• Isaria candida Schwein. 1832

• Isaria capitata Ellis & Everh. 1898

• Isaria carnea Pers. 1796 or Schwein.

• Isaria cateniannulata (Z.Q. Liang) Samson & Hywel-Jones 2005

• Isaria cateniobliqua (Z.Q. Liang) Samson & Hywel-Jones 2005

• Isaria ceratoides Speg. 1880

• Isaria chrysopoda Bres. 1900

• Isaria cicadae Miq. 1838

• Isaria cinnabarina Preuss

• Isaria citrina Pers. 1801

• Isaria citrinula Speg. 1910

• Isaria cladogena Sacc.

• Isaria clavata Ditmar 1817

• Isaria clonostachoides F. J. Pritch. & Porte 1922

• Isaria cocoa Lloyd 1920

• Isaria coleopterorum (Samson & H.C. Evans) Samson & Hywel-Jones 2005

• Isaria congesta Berk. & M.A. Curtis 1874 or Berk. & Broome 1875

• Isaria congregata Berk. & Broome 1875

• Isaria corallina Fr.

• Isaria coralloidea Kalchbr. & Cooke 1880

• Isaria cornea Lloyd 1919

• Isaria cosmopsaltriae Yasuda 1918

• Isaria crassa Pers. 1797

• Isaria cretacea J. F. H. Beyma 1935

• Isaria crinita Lloyd 1920

• Isaria cryptotympanae Sawada 1959

• Isaria cuneispora Boud. 1887

• Isaria dedawensis Henn.

• Isaria dendroidea Jungh. 1838

• Isaria densa (Link) Giard 1891

• Isaria destructor Metschn.

• Isaria dubia Delacr. 1893

• Isaria dussii Pat. 1900

• Isaria edessicola Speg. 1910

• Isaria edwalliana Henn. 1904

• Isaria elata (Kalchbr.) Sacc. & Traverso 1910

• Isaria elegans Beeli 1924

• Isaria elegantula Syd. 1909

• Isaria eleutheratorum Nees 1816

• Isaria empetri Lind 1928

• Isaria epiphylla Pers. 1797

• * Isaria epiphylla var. acuta Tassi

• * Isaria epiphylla var. epiphylla Pers. 1797

• * Isaria epiphylla var. fasciculata Sommerf.

• Isaria episphaeria Desm. 1843

• Isaria erastalidis Yasuda

• Isaria eriopoda Syd. 1912

• Isaria eristalidis Yasuda 1921

• Isaria exigua (Brond.) Sacc. 1892

• Isaria exoleta Fr. 1832

• Isaria farinosa (Holmsk.) Fr. 1832

• * Isaria farinosa f. crassa (Pers.) Fr. 1832

• * Isaria farinosa f. farinosa (Holmsk.) Fr. 1832

• * Isaria farinosa f. truncata (Pers.) Fr. 1832

• * Isaria farinosa f. velutipes (Link) Fr. 1832

• * Isaria farinosa var. citriformis Kobayasi 1941

• * Isaria farinosa var. farinosa (Holmsk.) Fr. 1832

• Isaria fasciculata Sommerf. 1826

• Isaria felina (DC.) Fr. 1832

• * Isaria felina var. aviaria Sacc. 1882

• * Isaria felina var. cuniculina Ferraris 1910

• * Isaria felina var. domestica Speg. 1912

• * Isaria felina var. felina (DC.) Fr. 1832

• * Isaria felina var. pirina Ellis & Marchal

• * Isaria felina var. pirina Marchal & É.J. Marchal 1921

• * Isaria felina var. suina Sacc. 1882

• Isaria filamentosa Sacc. 1886

• Isaria filiformis Wallr. 1833

• * Isaria filiformis var. cladogena Sacc. 1886

• * Isaria filiformis var. filiformis Wallr. 1833

• Isaria fimicola Sternon 1923

• Isaria flabelliformis (Schwein.) Lloyd 1916

• Isaria flavoviridis Rick 1922

• Isaria floccosa Berk. & Broome or Fr. 1829

• Isaria friesii Mont. 1836

• Isaria froggattii Lloyd 1922

• Isaria fruticosa Demelius 1923

• Isaria fuciformis Berk. 1872

• Isaria fulvipes Peck 1879

• Isaria fumosorosea Wize 1904

• Isaria funicularis Wallr.

• Isaria furcata Schwein. 1832

• Isaria furcellata G. Martin

• Isaria fusca J. N. Kapoor & Munjal 1967

• Isaria geophila Speg. 1898

• Isaria ghanensis (Samson & H.C. Evans) Samson & Hywel-Jones 2005

• Isaria gigantea Mont. 1856

• Isaria glauca Ditmar 1817

• * Isaria glauca var. americana P. Karst.

• * Isaria glauca var. glauca Ditmar 1817

• Isaria glaucocephala Link 1825

• Isaria globosa Schwein. 1832

• Isaria gossypina Pat.

• Isaria gracilioides Kobayasi 1941

• Isaria gracilis Speg. 1886

• Isaria gracilis Vosseler 1902

• Isaria graminiperda Berk. & F. Muell. 1873

• * Isaria graminiperda var. fuciformis (Berk.) Cooke 1892

• * Isaria graminiperda var. graminiperda Berk. & F. Muell. 1873

• Isaria grassa Pers.

• Isaria guignardii Maheu 1906

• * Isaria guignardii f. guignardii Maheu 1906

• * Isaria guignardii f. major Martinez{?} & Guinea 1931

• Isaria hariotii Arnaud 1915

• Isaria holmbergii Speg. 1880

• Isaria hydnoides Link 1825

• Isaria hypoxyli Kalchbr. 1865

• Isaria hystricina P. Karst.

• Isaria intricata Fr. 1832

• Isaria japonica Yasuda 1915

• Isaria javanica (Frieder. & Bally) Samson & Hywel-Jones 2005

• Isaria kogane Hasegawa & Koyama 1941

• Isaria kunitatiensis Kobayasi 1941

• Isaria lanuginosa Petch 1917

• Isaria lecaniicola Jaap 1909

• Isaria leprosa Fr. 1832

• * Isaria leprosa var. corralina (Fr.) Sacc. 1886

• * Isaria leprosa var. leprosa Fr. 1832

• * Isaria leprosa ß corralina Fr. 1832

• Isaria locusticola Z.Q. Liang, X.Y. He & Y.F. Han 2008

• Isaria lutea (Brond.) Sacc. 1892

• Isaria macroscyticola Kobayasi 1941

• Isaria melanopus Speg. 1889

• Isaria meliolae Hansf. 1943

• Isaria micromegala Berl. 1887

• * Isaria micromegala var. micromegala Berl. 1887

• * Isaria micromegala var. ulmicola Cif. 1922

• Isaria microscopica Grev. 1823

• Isaria mitruliformis Henn. 1906

• Isaria mokanshawii Lloyd 1919

• Isaria monilioides Alb. & Schwein. 1805

• Isaria moriokaensis Aoki 1957

• Isaria mucida Pers. 1794 or Schumach. 1803

• Isaria murina Oudem. 1892

• Isaria musasiensis Aoki 1942

• Isaria muscigena Cooke & Müll. {?}

• Isaria mycelioides Lloyd 1923

• Isaria myrmicidae Lloyd 1920

• Isaria nigra Yakush. & Kumaz. 1930

• Isaria nigripes Schwein. 1832

• Isaria nipponica Kobayasi 1939

• Isaria ochracea Boud. 1903

• Isaria odora Raf. 1813

• Isaria oncopterae McAlpine

• Isaria oncotympanae Kobayasi 1939

• Isaria orthopterorum Petch 1933

• Isaria ovi Teng 1932

• Isaria pachylomerica Kawam. 1927

• Isaria palmae F. Stevens & C. J. King 1927

• Isaria palmatifida Henn. 1902

• Isaria patrobus Lloyd 1924

• Isaria pattersonii Massee 1912

• Isaria peckoltii Lloyd 1919

• Isaria penicilliformis Peck 1898

• Isaria perexigua Kobayasi 1941

• Isaria perpusilla Speg. 1922

• Isaria phalangiophila Link 1825

• Isaria pistillariiformis Pat.

• Isaria plumosa Cooke

• Isaria psychidae A. Evans

• Isaria puberula Berk. 1841

• Isaria pulcherrima Berk. & Broome 1875

• Isaria radians Berk.

• Isaria radiata Berk. & M. A. Curtis 1874

• Isaria ramosissima Zoll.

• Isaria repens Cooke

• Isaria rhodosperma Bres.

• Isaria rosea (Berk. & M. A. Curtis) Sacc.

• Isaria saccharina Pers. 1801

• Isaria saussurei Cooke 1892

• Isaria schweinitzii Sacc.

• Isaria shiotae Kuru 1932

• Isaria sinclairii (Berk.) Lloyd 1923

• Isaria smilanensis Wize 1904

• Isaria sphaerocephala Petch 1942

• Isaria sphecophila Ditmar 1817

• Isaria sphingophila Link 1824

• Isaria sphingum Schwein. 1822

• Isaria spiculosa Wallr.

• Isaria splendens Rabenh. 1844

• Isaria spumarioides Cooke

• Isaria stellata Cooke

• Isaria stemonitis Pers. 1797

• Isaria stenobothri Hollande & Moreau 1922

• Isaria stenocori (Quél.) Kobayasi 1982

• Isaria stilbiformis Speg. 1879

• Isaria straminipes Ellis & Everh. 1888

• Isaria strigosa Fr. 1832

• Isaria subsimplex Schumach. 1803

• Isaria suffruticosa Cooke & Massee 1890

• Isaria suina Sacc.

• Isaria sulfurea Fiedl. 1859 : Isaria sulphurea is an Orthographic variant

• * Isaria sulfurea var. ossicola Speg. 1912

• * Isaria sulfurea var. sulfurea Fiedl. 1859

• * Isaria sulphurea var. sulphurea Fiedl. 1859 (legitimate)

• Isaria surinamensis Vosseler 1902

• Isaria tartarea Wallr.

• Isaria tax Kumar D, Roy CS, Khan ZR, Yazdani, Hameed, Mahmood M. 1983

• Isaria tenella (Sacc.) Giard 1891

• Isaria tenuipes Peck 1879

• Isaria tenuis F. Heim 1893

• Isaria terrestris Fr. 1825

• Isaria thelephoroides Bres. 1911

• Isaria thyrosoidea Penz. & Sacc. 1904

• Isaria tinearum Speg. 1898

• Isaria tomentella Fr. 1832

• Isaria tremellosa Schumach. 1803

• Isaria truncata Pers. 1801 or Briard

• * Isaria truncata var. damaecornu Pers. 1822

• * Isaria truncata var. truncata Pers. 1801

• Isaria umbrina Pers. 1801

• * Isaria umbrina var. parasitica Alb. & Schwein. 1805

• * Isaria umbrina var. umbrina Pers. 1801

• Isaria valsicola Kirschst. 1939

• Isaria vassiljevae Koval 1967

• Isaria velutipes Link 1809

• Isaria verticillata G. F. Atk.

• Isaria vexans R.H. Pettit 1895

• Isaria virescens Elenkin & A.L. Danilov 1922

• Isaria virginiensis Ellis & Everh. 1893

• Isaria xylariiformis Lloyd 1923

• Isaria yokohamensis Kobayasi 1941


 * Species formerly described in Isaria
 * Family Ophiocordycipitaceae
 * Genus Purpureocillium: Isaria takamizusanensis and I. atypicola.