Résumé
This study reveals the existence of 17 endemic and 6 near-endemic species in the Palearctic Continental North Africa. They represent about 12 % of the 192 terrestrial breeding species considered here. Most of these species (18 out of them) reached the status of separate species after a long period of isolation, North Africa having played the role of refugia during the Quaternary glaciations which have occurred in Europe. The exact status of a few further species is still pending.