Aphrophoridae as Potential Vectors of Xylella fastidiosa in Tunisia
, Rebha Souissi 1, Raied Abou Kubaa 2, Maroun El Moujabber 3 and Vladimir Gnezdilov 4
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Reviewer 1 Report
This article is about the distribution, habitats and host plants of four Aphrophoridae species in Tunisia, some of which are potential vectors of the phytopathogenic bacterium Xf, although this pathogen is not yet found in the country.
Although the research has a large sampling effort, the article has several writing and language style errors.
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Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
I improved the version according to your suggestions.
Thank you for your help to get a better manuscript
Author Response File: 
Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript describes the results from an inventory of four hemipteran species, which potentially may act as vectors for Xylella fastidiosa in Tunisia. If the disease will establish in Tunisia, it is valuable to know which vectors to look for in the different regions and habitats. Therefore, a revised version of the study will have both practical implications and be a contribution to the knowledge of species of this, sometimes neglected, group of insects. My main concern is how reliable the quantitative data and comparisons are. Based on the methods used, is it really possible to compare number between sites or years? To do that, the description of the methods has to be more detailed regarding the sweep netting. How many turns/strikes with the net per time unit or site? In order to be able to make the comparisons done in the ms and for possible future follow ups, the methods have to be described in such details and carefulness that someone else can repeat the procedure. In addition to this, I have a number of issues to take care of:
Line 16: The regions are called habitats, which is wrong.
Many names of genera are not in italics as they should be.
The detailed description of the regions, lines 131-262, should go into an appendix or supplementary material. This is really not central for the study.
Lines 334-335 should go to section 2.2.
Table 3 should be reformatted into a figure instead and could be reduced to fit on one page.
I cannot find where figure 6 is referred to in the text.
The whole text needs a thorough revision of language.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thank you for the suggestion you send me. I do all the changes you request and I hope I succeed.
Sonia
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
