ABSTRACT
Hypothenemus hampei is an important pest of coffee in Brazil and the world. The majority of thestudies concerning the association between this insect and fungus were lead in the aerial part of plants of Coffea canephora. Field studies were carried out on C. canephora, in Ouro Preto do Oeste, Rondônia, to determine the mycobiota associated with coffee berry borer and coffee fruits. Bored and unbored fruits were collected from plants of C. canephora and, borers and galleries were obtained from the disection of the infested fruits. The results that there is a great diversity of fungus associated to the insects. In the borers of the soil there were registered 110 isolates (10 genera) and in the aerial part there were found 91 isolates (5 genera). In relation to the bored fruits (galleries) there were registered 5 genera in the soil and 2 in the aerial parts of plants, and for unbored fruits these values were 6 and 5, respectively. The "soil environment" showed greater diversity than the "aerial part" as much borers as bored fruits. In relation to unbored fruits this difference was not significant, showing the action of the borer in the dispersion of these microorganisms between these two environments. This work offers a description of mycota associated to H. hampei in C. canephora and shows the influence of the environment in the diversity of this mycota.
KEY WORDS
Mycobiota
;
Coffea
; insect-fungus interactions