“…The distribution of M. donacis is reported in Europe (France, Georgia, Italy, Spain, and two autonomous regions of Portugal), Asia (Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Nepal and Pakistan), Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia), North America (California State of USA) and South America (Chile and Argentina) (Hille 1966;Raychaudhuri & Banerjee 1974;Stary & Sekkat 1987;Belda et al 1994;Ortego et al 2004;Tsitsipis et al 2007;Holman 2009;Ali et al 2012;Bodlah 2017;Muhammad et al 2019;Khaled-Gasmi et al 2022).…”