Polycephalomyces Kobayasi, Sci. Rep. Tokyo Bunrika Daig., Sect. B 5: 245 (1941)
MycoBank number: MB 9494; Index Fungorum number: IF 9494; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03811; 17 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 13 species with sequence data.
Type species – Polycephalomyces formosus Kobayasi
Notes – Polycephalomyces species are found in subtropical regions and are parasitic or hyperparasitic on insects (Xiao et al. 2018). This genus was considered as pathogenic on insects or mycoparasites on Ophiocordyceps species and has stipitate, bright stromata, immersed perithecia, ascospores which break into part spores, lanceolate to narrowly lageniform phialides and one or two types of conidia (Matočec et al. 2014, Xiao et al. 2018).