MYCOFLORA OF CAVE CRICKET TROGLOPHILUS-NEGLECTUS CADAVERS

By using different techniques and media, microfungi were isolated from cadavers of the cave cricket Troglophilus neglectus, collected on the walls of a Slovenian cave. The isolated mycobiota was consistently di fferent for adult and larval stages of T. neglectus cadavers. Fungi is olated with the highest frequency from the larval stage were represent ed by five different species of the genus Mucor, the prevailing one be ing a newly described species, M. troglophilus. The dominating fungus isolated from the adult stage was the well-known fungal entomopathogen Beauveria bassiana. The other isolated fungi were mainly primary and secondary saprotrophic colonizers.