Akanthomyces – Facesoffungi number: FoF 13118

Akanthomyces Lebert, Z. Wiss. Zool. 9: 449 (1858)

MycoBank number: MB 7083; Index Fungorum number: IF 7083; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13118; 24 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 10 species with sequence data.

Type species – Akanthomyces aculeatus Lebert

Notes – This genus was established by Lebert (1858) with a single species Akanthomyces aculeatus found in France (Hsieh et al. 1997a). The sexual morph was confirmed as cordyceps-like (Hodge et al. 2003, Kepler et al. 2017) and thus may be a synonym. The genus infects Lepidoptera adults and produces white, cream or flesh-colored, cylindrical, attenuated synnemata covered with a hymenium of phialides and unicellular, hyaline conidia, in short or long chains (Hodge et al. 2003). Species also occur on spiders producing synnematous or mononematous isaria-like phialides and hyaline and long chains of conidia (Mongkolsamrit et al. 2018).

Species