Occurrence of filamentous fungi in Simulium goeldii cerqueira & nunes de mello (Diptera: Simuliidae) larvae in Central Amazonia, Brazil

Abstract

The family Simuliidae is the host of simbiontes fungi that inhabit the digestive tracts of arthropods. This paper reports the presence of fungi in Simulium goeldii Cerqueira & Nunes de Mello larvae in Amazonia. We observed that the larvae are a good component of aquatic systems to isolate filamentous fungi.