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Bahia Doumandji-Mitiche

  • 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.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 11 (4): 1007-1014

    Abderrahmane Chebli, Bahia Doumandji-Mitiche, Salaheddine Doumandji, Mohamed Biche & Timothy A. Mousseau
    Overview of the arthropod fauna in the extreme southeastern Algeria: species richness in Tassili N’Ajjer National Park (Djanet, Algeria)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2020.11.4.1007.1014

    ABSTRACT
    The present study concerns arthropod populations in two different environments, cultivated and natural regions of Djanet. We conducted qualitative and quantitative surveys over two seasons (summer and winter). Three sampling methods were used: pitfall traps, sweep nets, and yellow pan traps. Overall, 4480 individual arthropods were captured representing 191 species, 4 classes, 21 orders and 106 families, distributed across four study sites, namely: Lokmane and El Mihane stations for the cultivated environment and Teghargharte and Iffoutten stations for the natural environment. A total of 112 species of arthropod species were captured by pitfall traps, with Hymenoptera accounting for 69% of the species. Sweep netting generated 65 species of arthropods, with Orthoptera accounting for 36% of the captures. Yellow pan traps led to the capture of 82 species of arthropods, with dipterans most attracted by this type of trap with a rate of 38%. The 17 species of Orthoptera that we captured in the region of Djanet belonged to 7 families and 2 orders, in which the species Tridactylus variegatus was the most abundant.