Beauveria bassiana sensu lato

Hosts.

Many insect orders, including Coleoptera (e.g. Elateroidea and Tenebrionoidea spp., Humber and Hansen 2005; Reddy et al. 2014; Sufyan et al. 2017); inhabiting soil, plant surfaces and plant internal tissues (Bamisile et al. 2018).

Distribution.

Widely distributed.

Note.

Beauveria bassiana sensu lato includes a large complex of cryptic species with wide host ranges, including many Coleoptera families (Rehner et al. 2011; Imoulan et al. 2017).