Répartition du Pou de San José Comstockaspis perniciosa (Comstock, 1881) (Homoptera: Diaspididae) dans la wilaya de Khenchela
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2024
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Abbes LaghrourUniversity,Khenchela
Abstract
Surveys were carried out in apple orchards in communes in the Khenchela wilaya (21), as
well as in 52 communes in 52 Algerian wilayas over the period October 2023 to April 2024.
Data were collected from the Khenchela Agricultural Services Department (DSA) and the
National Plant Protection Institute at Hacen Badi, El-Harrach (wilaya of Algiers). These data
showed that forty-three communes out of fifty-two (43/52) in seventeen Algerian wilayas
contained an outbreak of C. perniciosa, an infestation percentage of 83%., and that fourteen
communes out of twenty-one (14/21) in the wilaya of Khenchela contained outbreaks of C.
perniciosa, with a percentage of 67% infestation. It is interesting to note that the our survey
revealed 4 new outbreaks in the communes of (Irris, Ichemoul, Tahar, Sidi Maarouf and
Kaous) in the wilayas of Batna and Djijel, and 3 new outbreaks in three communes (Baghai,
El Hamma (Bazgatou) and El Mahmal) in the wilaya of Khenchela that had not been reported
by the DSA. In the wilaya of Khenchela, no work has been done on the actual distribution of
C. perniciosa