NECROPHAGOUS BEETLES ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFERENT ANIMAL CORPSES IN VARIOUS ALGERIAN LOCALITIES

Abstract

This study presents the results of a work carried out on six biological models: that of a Garenne Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus(Mammalia, Liporidae), a Mongoose Egyptian Herpeste ichneumon (Mammalia, Herpestidae) in the region of the Greater Kabylie (Algeria) in 2015 during the spring period (March and April), the common jackal Canis aureus (Mammalia, Canidae) in Tikjda during the autumn season (November and December) of the same year, Rat Rattus norvegicus (Mammalia, Muridae) and the Partridge gambra Alectoris barbara (Aves, Phasianidae) in 2016 during the winter (February and March) in the Kolea region (Tipaza), as well as on a wild boar Sus scrofa (Mammalia, Suidae) in summer 2016 (July and August) around the Djurdjura National Park (Bouira). Only one trapping technique was used in this study. The Barber pots were placed around these six corpses. In the Egyptian mongoose, we captured 500 beetles and 435 coleopterans in the wild rabbit. The Carabidae family are dominant with 27.40% in the Mongoose of Egypt and the Dermestidae family with 22.07% in the Garenne Rabbit. The common jackal with 190 Coleoptera whose Staphylinidae family dominates with 51.58% (98 individuals). 995 Coleoptera identified in the wild boar of which the family Staphylinidae is best represented with 38.39% (382 individuals). Regarding the laboratory rat, we identified 161 Coleoptera and 119 Coleoptera in the Alectoris Barbara. The Staphylinidae family dominates for the two, with 39.13% (63 individuals) and 53.78% (64 individuals) respectively.