Figure 2.

Initial aspects of the fungal-insect interaction: the insect cuticle and its hydrocarbon contents. Image adapted from (Noble-Nesbitt, 1991). The inner, outer, wax, cement, and bloom layers are often considered as the epicuticle, with the pore canals, that transverse the exo-, plus the meso-, and endocuticle portions (not shown in figure) comprising the procuticle.