Biodiversity is usually evaluated by assessment of species diversity. Biodiversity assessment of fungal communities
is, however, challenging, because fungal taxa often consist of complexes of cryptic species (Bickford et al.,2007). Cryptic species are found in B. bassiana (Rehner and Buckley, 2005; Rehner et al., 2006) and seemingly also
in the morphological species M. anisopliae (Bidochka et al.,2001, 2005). Evaluating the biodiversity contribution of B.
bassiana and M. anisopliae in agroecosystems must therefore be based on an assessment of the genetic diversity to
discover potential cryptic species. Traditional assessment of fungal species diversity is based on morphological features.
Unfortunately, few and sometimes ambiguous characters are used for species separation. Furthermore, many
entomopathogenic hypocrealean fungi have probably exclusively anamorphic life cycles in temperate regions, at