Table 1.
Distribution of phlebotomine species caught by sticky traps in 16 rural sites of Oum El Bouaghi region (Northeast Algeria) during the period May–October 2010
| Study Sites | Sticky traps | Phlebotomus perniciosus | Phlebotomus perfiliewi | Phlebotomus longicuspis | Phlebotomus papatasi | Sergentomyia minuta | All sandfly species | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area (m2) | nights | N | RA | D | N | RA | D | N | RA | D | N | RA | D | N | RA | D | N | D | |
| S1 | 3.12 | 1 | 5 | 18.52 | 1.60 | 22 | 81.48 | 7.05 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 27 | 8.65 |
| S2 | 4.94 | 2 | 58 | 35.80 | 5.87 | 97 | 59.88 | 9.82 | – | – | – | – | – | 7 | 4.32 | 0.71 | 162 | 16.40 | |
| S3 | 2.64 | 3 | 87 | 48.33 | 10.98 | 84 | 46.67 | 10.61 | 3 | 1.67 | 0.38 | 2 | 1.11 | 0.25 | 4 | 2.22 | 0.51 | 180 | 22.73 |
| S4 | 6.13 | 1 | 100 | 86.96 | 16.31 | 6 | 5.22 | 0.98 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | 7.82 | 1.47 | 115 | 18.76 |
| S5 | 2.64 | 4 | 44 | 25.58 | 4.17 | 36 | 20.93 | 3.41 | 1 | 0.58 | 0.09 | 2 | 1.16 | 0.19 | 89 | 51.75 | 8.43 | 172 | 16.29 |
| S6 | 3.60 | 1 | 18 | 45.00 | 5.00 | 18 | 45.00 | 5.00 | 1 | 2.50 | 0.28 | – | – | – | 3 | 7.50 | 0.83 | 40 | 11.11 |
| S7 | 3.16 | 3 | 5 | 4.42 | 0.53 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 108 | 95.58 | 11.39 | 113 | 11.92 |
| S8 | 4.88 | 2 | 68 | 95.77 | 6.97 | 1 | 1.41 | 0.10 | 1 | 1.41 | 0.10 | – | – | – | 1 | 1.41 | 0.10 | 71 | 7.27 |
| S9 | 4.32 | 3 | 77 | 34.22 | 5.94 | – | – | – | 2 | 0.89 | 0.15 | – | – | – | 146 | 64.89 | 11.27 | 225 | 17.36 |
| S10 | 10.08 | 2 | 111 | 79.29 | 5.51 | 16 | 11.43 | 0.79 | – | – | – | 1 | 0.71 | 0.05 | 12 | 8.59 | 0.60 | 140 | 6.94 |
| S11 | 2.00 | 3 | 33 | 63.46 | 5.50 | 2 | 3.85 | 0.33 | 11 | 21.15 | 1.83 | – | – | – | 6 | 11.54 | 1.00 | 52 | 8.67 |
| S12 | 1.52 | 1 | 2 | 100 | 1.32 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1.32 |
| S13 | 1.44 | 1 | 9 | 69.23 | 6.25 | 4 | 30.77 | 2.78 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13 | 9.03 |
| S14 | 1.60 | 1 | 10 | 100 | 6.25 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 6.25 |
| S15 | 1.60 | 1 | 12 | 100 | 7.50 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12 | 7.50 |
| S16 | 1.92 | 1 | 12 | 41.38 | 6.25 | 15 | 51.72 | 7.81 | 2 | 6.90 | 1.04 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 29 | 15.10 |
| Chi2 value (df = 15) | 520.83 | 247.50 | 35.13 | 714.65 | 475.00 | 71.50 | 86.43 | 184.70 | 15.52 | 23.80 | 13.60 | 2.83 | 1328.75 | 769.30 | 110.35 | 935.21 | 41.56 | ||
| P-value | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.002 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.414 | 0.069 | 0.559 | 0.999 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||
| Total N | 651 | 301 | 21 | 5 | 385 | 1363 | |||||||||||||
| Percentage of N | 47.8 | 22.1 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 28.2 | 100 | |||||||||||||
| Total of D | 95.95 | 48.68 | 3.87 | 0.49 | 36.31 | 185.30 | |||||||||||||
| Mean D | 6.00 | 3.04 | 0.24 | 0.03 | 2.27 | 11.58 | |||||||||||||
| Mean of RA | 59.26 | 22.38 | 2.21 | 0.19 | 15.96 | ||||||||||||||
| Occurrence (%) | 100 | 68.75 | 43.8 | 18.8 | 62.5 | ||||||||||||||
| Occurrence class | Constant | Constant | Common | Accidental | Constant | ||||||||||||||
N: Number of caught specimens, RA: Relative abundance (species % per site), D: species density (specimens/m2/night) (See Fig. 1 for site codes).