Table 3 Summary of the taxonomic composition of the mycobiota associated with H. illucens

Cai et al. 2018 [61]

27.5 °C

RH: 70%

Wheat bran

Larvae

Whole gut

Illumina HiSeq amplicon sequencing; cultivation followed by partial ITS gene sequencing

Enlyloma, Lysurus and Trichophyton

Boccazzi et al. 2017 [59]

27 °C

RH: 65%

Chicken feed; vegetable waste

Larvae

Whole gut

Pyrosequencing; cultivation followed by partial ITS gene sequencing

Kazachstania, Kluyveromyces, Meyerozyma, Alternaria, Davidiella, Meira, Piptocephalis, Botryotina, Collophora, Trichosporon, Rhodotorula, Hypocrea, Eupenicillium, Geotrichum, Pichia, Candida, Debaryomyces

Zhang et al. 2021 [68]

30 °C

RH: Not specified

Chicken manure

Larvae

Whole gut

Illumina MiSeq amplicon sequencing

Penicillium, Aspergillus, Alternaria, Russula, Phialemoniopsis, Cyberlindnera, Candida, Trichosporon, Trichoderma

Tanga et al. 2021 [50]

Ambient conditions

Brewers’ spent grain; kitchen food waste; poultry manure; rabbit manure

Larvae

Whole gut

Illumina MiSeq amplicon sequencing

Pichia, Cyberlindnera, Saccharomycodes, Yamadazyma, Saccharomyces, and Scopulariopsis

Tegtmeier et al. 2021 [44]

27 °C

RH: 65%

Chicken feed; cottonseed press cake

Larvae

Whole gut

Illumina MiSeq amplicon sequencing

Trichosporon, Diutina, Aspergillus, Xeromyces and Acaulium

Klüber et al. 2022 [39]

27 °C

RH: 65%

Palm kernel meal

Larvae

Whole gut

Cultivation followed by partial ITS gene sequencing

Trichosporon, Candida, Sporopachydermia, Lichtheimia, Fusarium, Pichia, Suhomyces, Diutina, Kluyveromyces

Vitenberg et al. 2022 [75]

Not specified

Household compost

Larvae

Whole gut

Illumina MiSeq amplicon sequencing

Candidada, Gibberella and Meyerozyma

Yu et al. 2023 [71]

28 °C

RH: Not specified

Artificial diet for Drosophila melanogaster

Larvae

Whole gut

Illumina MiSeq amplicon sequencing

Issatchenkia and Candida