Table 1 Examples of insects infected by entomopathogenic fungi and fungal-like organisms

Aphanomyces laevis

Mosquito larvae

(Patwardhan et al. 2005)

Couchia spp.

(Wallace Martin 2000)

Crypticola spp.

(Frances 1991; Dick 2003; Mendoza et al. 2018)

Lagenidium giganteum

(Golkar et al. 1993; Vyas et al. 2007; Vilela et al. 2019)

Leptolegnia caudata spp.

(Bisht et al. 1996; Montalva et al. 2016; Gutierrez et al. 2017)

Pythium spp.

(Clark et al. 1966; Su et al. 2001; Su 2008; Shen et al. 2019)

Anncaliia algerae

Drosophila melanogaster

(Sokolova et al. 2020)

Antonospora locustae (Nosema locustae)

Grasshoppers

(Lange 2005; Zhou and Zhang 2009; Gerus et al. 2020)

Nosema adaliae

Two-spotted lady beetle, Adalia bipunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

(Steele and Bjørnson 2014)

Nosema alticae

Flea beetle, Altica hampei (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

(Yıldırım and Bekircan 2020)

Nosema bombi, Nosema ceranae, Tubulinosema pampeana

Bumblebees

(Brown 2017)

Nosema carpocapsae

Codling moth, Cydia pomonella L

(Zimmermann et al. 2013)

Nosema leptinotarsae

Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).

(Bekircan 2020)

Nosema maddoxi

Brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

(Preston et al. 2020b; Preston et al. 2020a)

Nosema pernyi

The Chinese oak silkworm Antheraea pernyi (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

(Liu et al. 2020)

Nosema pyrausta

European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis, the Asian corn borer Ostrinia furnacalis and the adzuki bean borer Ostrinia scapulalis

(Grushevaya et al. 2018; Grushevaya et al. 2020)

TubuliNosema sp.

Loxostege sticticalis L (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

(Malysh et al. 2018)

TubuliNosema suzukii

Drosophila suzukii

(Biganski et al. 2020)

Vairimorpha (Nosema) ceranae Vairimorpha (Nosema) apis

Honeybee Apis mellifera

(Forsgren and Fries 2010; Tokarev et al. 2018; Applegate and Petritz 2020; Chang et al. 2020; Ostroverkhova et al. 2020)

Myrmicinosporidium durum

Ants from Subfamilies: Myrmicinae, Formicinae and Dolichoderinae

(Sanchez-Peña et al. 1993; Gonçalves et al. 2012; Trigos-Peral et al. 2017)

Nephridiophaga maderae Nephridiophaga archimandrita

Nephridiophaga lucihormetica

Nephridiophaga blattellae

Nephridiophaga blaberi

Madeira cockroach (Leucophaea maderae),

Archimandrita tessellate

Lucihormetica verrucose

German cockroach Blattella germanica

Death’s head cockroach Blaberus craniifer

(Radek et al. 2017)

(Radek et al. 2011)

(Radek and Herth 1999)

(Fabel et al. 2000)

Coelomycidium simulii

Larval stage of black flies (Diptera): Simulium asakoae, S. chamlongi, S. chiangmaiense, S. fenestratum, S. feuerborni, S. nakhonense, S. nodosum, S. quinquestriatum, S. tani, and S. japonicum

(Levchenko et al. 1974; Kim 2011; Jitklang et al. 2012; Kim 2015; Adler and McCreadie 2019)

Coelomomyces africanus

Coelomomyces angolensis

Coelomomyces iliensis

Coelomomyces indicus

Coelomomyces irani

Coelomomyces lairdi

Coelomomyces maclaeyae

Coelomomyces numularius

Coelomomyces opifex

Coelomomyces pentangulatus

Coelomomyces polynesiensis

Coelomomyces punctatus

Coelomomyces solomonis

Coelomomyces santabrancae spp.

Mosquito larvae from species of Culex, Culiseta, Aedes, Anopheles, Psorophora, and Uranotaenia

(Scholte et al. 2004; Balaraman et al. 2006; Rueda-Páramo et al. 2017; Dahmana and Mediannikov 2020; Gao et al. 2020)

Myiophagus cf. ucrainicus

Scale insect: Caribbean black scale, Saissetia neglecta (Hemiptera), Caliphornia red scale, Aonidiella aurantii (Hemiptera)

Chironomus atracinus larvae

(Moore and Duncan 2017)

(Czeczuga and Godlewska 2001)