Chlorocillium Zare & W. Gams, Mycol. Progr. 15: 1005, 2016

= Pseudometarhizium W. H. Chen, Y. F. Han, J. D. Liang & Z. Q. Liang, MycoKeys 91: 59, 2022 MycoBank No: 842641.

Type species.

Chlorocillium griseum (Petch) Zare & W. Gams.

Notes.

Chen et al. (2022 a) introduced the genus Pseudometarhizium with P. araneogenum (type species) and P. lepidopterorum in the family Clavicipitaceae . However, in the present study, the multi-gene phylogenetic analyses revealed that Pseudometarhizium species clustered with Chlorocillium s. str. (Fig. 2). Besides, the typical characteristics of Pseudometarhizium are entirely consistent with Chlorocillium . Thus, the genus Pseudometarhizium is synonymized under Chlorocillium and the two known species of Pseudometarhizium are transferred into Chlorocillium .