Lecanicillium tenuipes (Petch) Zare & W.Gams is a fungus in the Cordycipitaceae family, order Hypocreales, kingdom Fungi. Not known to be toxic.

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Lecanicillium tenuipes (Petch) Zare & W.Gams

Lecanicillium tenuipes (Petch) Zare & W.Gams

Engyodontium aranearum is an ascomycete fungus in Cordycipitaceae that parasitizes long-bodied cellar spiders, causing 100% mortality in infected individuals.

Genus
Lecanicillium
Order
Hypocreales
Class
Sordariomycetes

About Lecanicillium tenuipes (Petch) Zare & W.Gams

Engyodontium aranearum is a species of ascomycete fungus that belongs to the family Cordycipitaceae. This fungus parasitizes the long-bodied cellar spider, which has the scientific name Pholcus phalangioides. It causes 100% mortality in all spiders that it infects.

Photo: (c) Javier A. Canteros, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Javier A. Canteros · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Fungi Ascomycota Sordariomycetes Hypocreales Cordycipitaceae Lecanicillium

More from Cordycipitaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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