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Philippe Ponel

  • Biodiversity Journal, 7 (3): 301-310

    Redouane Matallah, Karima Abdellaoui-hassaine, Philippe Ponel & Samira Boukli-hacene
    Diversity of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera Carabidae) in the Ramsar wetland: Dayet El Ferd, Tlemcen, Algeria

    ABSTRACT
    A study on diversity of ground beetle communities (Coleoptera Carabidae) was conducted between March 2011 and February 2012 in the temporary pond: Dayet El Ferd (listed as a Ramsar site in 2004) located in a steppe area on the northwest of Algeria. The samples were collected bimonthly at 6 sampling plots and the gathered Carabidae were identified and counted. A total of 55 species belonging to 32 genera of 7 subfamilies were identified from 2893 collected ground beetles. The most species rich subfamilies were Harpalinae (35 species, 64%) and Trechinae (14 species, 25.45%), others represented by one or two species. According to the total individual numbers, Cicindelinae was the most abundant subfamily comprising 38.81% of the whole beetles, followed by 998 Harpalinae (34.49%), and 735 Trechinae (25.4%), respectively. The dominant species was Calomera lunulata (Fabricius, 1781) (1087 individuals, 37.57%) and the subdominant species was Pogonus chalceus viridanus (Dejean, 1828) (576 individuals, 19.91%).

  • Biodiversity Journal, 14 (2): 0359-0366

    Med Takieddine Iboud, Samira Boukli Hacene & Philippe Ponel
    Coleoptera Carabidae Beetles of El-Kala National Park (north-eastern Algeria)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2023.14.2.359.366

    ABSTRACT
    The family Carabidae (Coleoptera) is one of the most diverse among beetles, but they are little studied in Algeria and, in particular, in the territory of El-Kala National Park. Therefore, a census of carabid communities with fortnightly trapping was carried out between 2018 and 2019 with the aim of analysing these populations around Lake Tonga, the first Algerian site to be classified as a Ramsar site and included in the Mediterranean Basin hotspot. These investigations have enabled us to record 1727 specimens belonging to 83 species of Carabidae. Six species are new to the Algerian entomofauna and six others are reported for the first time in North Africa.