Polycentropodidae

Dambri, Besma M., Karaouzas, Ioannis, Samraoui, Boudjéma & Samraoui, Farrah, 2020, Contribution to the knowledge of the caddisfly fauna of Algeria: An updated checklist of Algerian Trichoptera with new records from the Aures region, Zootaxa 4786 (2), pp. 221-232 : 224

Family Polycentropodidae

Plectrocnemia conspersa ( Curtis 1834) , first record for Algeria.

Berbaga: 28.xi.2018, 1 larva; 25.v. 2019, 1 larva . Yabous: 29.ii.2020, 2 larvae.

This is a widespread species found throughout the Palearctic, extending from the UK, Scandinavia, western, central and eastern Europe to the Mediterranean, Anatolia, and Russia. So far, only one other species of the genus has been reported from North Africa, Plectrocnemia laetabilis McLachlan 1880 , which was recorded from Morocco ( Hajji et al. 2013).