Abstract
ABSTRACT Fig trees provide a micro-habitat for various fruit pests, causing significant crop losses. Algeria is among the world’s leading producers of figs. To study the Drosophilidae species associated with fig orchards near Algiers, a total of 190 drosophilid flies were collected and identified through morphological analysis, confirmed by DNA barcoding. Two species were documented: Zaprionus tuberculatus Malloch, 1932, and Zaprionus indianus Gupta, 1970. Pairwise alignment of the obtained COII sequences with global Zaprionus spp. references revealed 65 haplotypes, including two new Algerian haplotypes (H64 and H65). This study marks the first record of Zaprionus tuberculatus in Algeria and confirms the presence of Zaprionus indianus in Algerian fig orchards.
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