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Engyodontium aranearum
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Engyodontium aranearum

Lecanicillium tenuipes is a species of ascomycete fungus in the family Cordycipitaceae. Engyodontium aranearum was synonymized to this species in 2001.

It is one of many species of fungal pathogens that infect spiders. It parasitizes the long-bodied cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides). It causes 100% mortality in infected spiders.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 382244.