A total of 131 phlebotomine Algerian sandflies have been processed in the present study. They belong to the species
Phlebotomus bergeroti
,
Phlebotomus alexandri
,
Phlebotomus sergenti
,
Phlebotomus chabaudi
,
Phlebotomus riouxi
,
Phlebotomus perniciosus
,
Phlebotomus longicuspis
,
Phlebotomus perfiliewi
,
Phlebotomus ariasi
,
Phlebotomus chadlii
,
Sergentomyia fallax
,
Sergentomyia minuta
,
Sergentomyia antennata
,
Sergentomyia schwetzi
,
Sergentomyia clydei
,
Sergentomyia christophersi
and
Grassomyia dreyfussi
. They have been characterised by sequencing
of a part of the cytochrome b (cyt b), t RNA serine and NADH1 on the one hand and of the cytochrome C oxidase
I of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) on the other hand. Our study highlights two sympatric populations within
P.
sergenti in the area of its type-locality and new haplotypes of
P. perniciosus and
P. longicuspis without recording
the specimens called lcx previously found in North Africa. We tried to use a polymerase chain reaction-restriction
fragment length polymorphism method based on a combined double digestion of each marker. These method is not
interesting to identify sandflies all over the Mediterranean Basin.
