Genus
Beauveria
Beauveria bassiana. Photo: (c) Dougal Townsend, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Beauveria is a genus of asexually-reproducing fungi allied with the ascomycete family Cordycipitaceae. Its several species are typically insect pathogens. The sexual states (teleomorphs) of Beauveria species, where known, are species of Cordyceps.