Rhyacophila munda McLachlan 1862

Bemmoussat-Dekkak, Soumya, Abdellaoui-Hassaine, Karima, Sartori, Michel & Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen, 2021, Contribution to knowledge of the Trichoptera of northwestern Algeria: New species records for the Algerian fauna and taxonomic remarks for the Maghreb fauna, Zootaxa 5068 (2), pp. 186-210 : 188

Rhyacophila munda McLachlan 1862

Material examined. Chouly Wadi Beni Ghazli ( CH 0): 2 ♂ P, 12.iv.2015 . Chouly wadi Yebder ( CH 1): 3 ♂ P, 06.v.2014 ; 2 ♂ P, 03.vi.2015; 5 ♂ P, 12.v.2017. Khemis wadi (KH1): 4 ♂ P, 6.v. 2015 . Chouly wadi Yebder ( CH 1): 5 ♀ P, 16.iv.2014 ; 2 ♀ P, 21.vi.2014; 8 ♀ P, 11.iv.2015; 5 ♀ P, 12.v.2017. Chouly wadi Ouled Mimoun ( CH 4): 4 ♀ P, 12.v. 2017 .

Adults obtained by breeding: Chouly Wadi Beni Ghazli ( CH 0): 3 ♂ P, 24.iv.2014 ; Chouly wadi Yebder ( CH 1): 2 ♂ P, and 5 ♀ P, 12.v.2017 .

Distribution. This is a West Palearctic species reported from Spain, Portugal, Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Morocco, Tunisia ( Neu et al. 2018) and Algeria ( Tobias & Tobias 2008). In Algeria, R. munda is widespread. It inhabits streams with a fairly wide ecological spectrum. Sekhi et al. (2016) reported it from altitudes of 100 m to 1170 m. In our study, it was collected at altitudes of 551−1065 m a.s.l.