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Timothy A. Mousseau

  • 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.