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Ahlem Meriem

  • Biodiversity Journal, 12 (3): 0561-0566

    Ahlem Meriem, Lina Aitaider, Bahia Doumanddji-Mitiche & Abderrahmane Chebli
    First record of the feather-legged fly Trichopoda pennipes (Fabricius, 1781) (Diptera Tachinidae) a parasitoid of the southern green stink bug Nezara viridula (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hemiptera Pentatomidae) in Algeria
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2021.12.3.561.566

    ABSTRACT
    Between 2018 and 2019 we conducted a comprehensive study on the southern green stink bug Nezara viridula (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hemiptera Pentatomidae) for the first time in Algeria. On August 2019 specimens of the feather-legged fly Trichopoda pennipes (Fabricius, 1781) (Diptera Tachinidae) were detected for the first time from reared parasitized adults of Nezara viridula (L.) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) which were sampled from tomato crop in an agricultural region called Ouled Hadedj in the eastern part of Mitidja in Algeria. Trichopoda pennipes is an endoparasitoid of the stink bug Nezara viridula. This study provides the first record of this Nearctic tachinid fly and its genus in Algeria which can also be a very useful addition for biodiversity and for the geographical distribution of this species. Morphological description of the detected parasitoid species and Colored photographs of the parasitoid and parasitized host are provided.