Beauveria

noun

Beau·ve·ria

bō-ˈvir-ē-ə

: a genus of imperfect fungi (order Moniliales) that is sometimes included in the genus Botrytis and that comprises several fungi used in biological control of insects see calcino

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from New Latin, from Jean Beauverie †1938 French botanist and mycologist + New Latin -ia -ia

Note: Named by the French mycologist Jean Paul Vuillemin (1861-1932) in "Beauveria, nouveau genre de Verticilliacées," Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, tome 59 (1912), pp. 34-40. Vuillemin based the new genus on descriptions made by Beauverie in "Notes sur les Muscardines. Sur une Muscardine du Ver à soie," Laboratoire d'Études de la Soie, Rapport présenté à la Chambre de Commerce de Lyon par la Commission administrative, tome 14 (1911), pp. 55-82.