Soil is an important reservoir of entomopathogenic fungi in the fields. The communitystructures and species diversities of the entomopathogenic fungi in the soil of tea gardensin Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Shandong provincewere studied. Four genus and11species of entomogenous fungi were identified. The11species are Beauveria bassiana, B. brongniatii; Metarhizium anisopliae, M. flavoviride;Isaria farinosa, I. fumosorosea, I. javanicus, I. cicadae, I. cateniannulata, I. ten...