“…To date, many researchers have reported the ultrastructure of various alimentary organs of numerous groups of arthropods. These include mosquitoes, Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Zieler et al 2000;Moncayo et al 2005), Culex quinquefasciatus (Sais et al 2003); sand flies, Lutzomyia longipalpis (Secundino et al 2005), Lutzomyia intermedia (Andrade-Coêlho et al 2001); bot fly, Dermatobia hominis (Evangelista and Leite 2003); black fly, Simulium pertinax (Cavados et al 2004); fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Lee et al 1998;Hung et al 2000); ticks, Haemaphysalis longicornis (Matsuo et al 2003), Ixodes ricinus (Jasik and Buczek 2005), Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Nunes et al 2005); mite, Platytrombidium fasciatum (Shatrov 2005); ants, Tetraponera (Billen and Buschinger 2000), Solenopsis saevissima (Arab and Caetano 2002), Pachycondyla villosa (Zara and Caetano 2003); reduviid bug, Triatoma infestans (Reis et al 2003); beetles, Dendroctonus (Silva-Olivares et al 2003), Odontotaenius disjunctus (Nardi et al 2006); and a moth, Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Gerard 2002). In the present study, observations of the morphology of the alimentary canal of C. megacephala larvae were carried out to the ultrastructural level to clarify their morphological composition and better understand the functional role of each associated organ.…”