Akanthomyces lecanii (Zimm.) Spatafora, Kepler & B. Shrestha

Cephalosporium lecanii ≡ Cephalosporium lecanii Zimm.

Verticillium lecanii ≡ Verticillium lecanii (Zimm.) Viégas

Lecanicillium lecanii ≡ Lecanicillium lecanii (Zimm.) Zare & W. Gams

Cephalosporium lecanii coccorum = Cephalosporium lecanii f. coccorum (Petch) Bałazy

Sporotrichum lichenicola = Sporotrichum lichenicola Berk. & Broome

Hirsutella confragosa = Hirsutella confragosa Mains

Torrubiella confragosa = Torrubiella confragosa Mains

Cordyceps confragosa = Cordyceps confragosa (Mains) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora

Cephalosporium coccorum = Cephalosporium coccorum Petch

Verticillium coccorum = Verticillium coccorum (Petch) Westerd.

Cephalosporium coccorum uredinis = Cephalosporium coccorum var. uredinis U.P. Singh & Pavgi

Cephalosporium subclavatum = Cephalosporium subclavatum Petch

Akanthomyces lecanii For further doubtful synonyms, see Zare and Gams (2001).

Hosts.

Spiders, insects from various orders, including Coleoptera (e.g. Tenebrionidae: Alphitobius diaperinus); inhabiting phytopathogenic fungi and plant-parasitic nematodes (Humber and Hansen 2005; Shinya et al. 2008).

Distribution.

Widely distributed in tropical and temperate regions, for example: Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Indonesia, Peru, Sri Lanka, the West Indies, Turkey and USA (Zare and Gams 2001).

Notes.

The species was originally and frequently reported on scale insects ( Hemiptera: Coccidae (syn. Lecaniidae)) (Zare and Gams 2001). Humber and Hansen (2005) listed its hosts involving spiders, many insect orders and found on the mushroom Puccinia striiformis ( Pucciniaceae). The species was also found on phytopathogenic fungi and plant-parasitic nematodes (Shinya et al. 2008). Zare and Gams (2001) systematically studied the species and listed its synonyms. Kepler et al. (2017) rejected Torrubiella and Lecanicillium and transferred the species to Akanthomyces .