| Glossina brevipalpis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Glossinidae |
| Genus: | Glossina |
| Species: | G. brevipalpis |
| Binomial name | |
| Glossina brevipalpis Newstead, 1910 | |
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| Geographic distribution of Glossina brevipalpis as reported in scientific papers –Publication period 1990–2020 | |
Glossina brevipalpis is one of the 23 recognized species of tsetse flies (genus Glossina), it belongs to the forest/fusca group (subgenus Austenina).
Glossina brevipalpis was known to be widely scattered in eastern Africa, from Somalia and Ethiopia in the North to South Africa in the South. [1] A recent review of the scientific literature for the period 1990 – 2020 corroborated these earlier reports for 6 countries; [2] Kenya, [3] Mozambique, [4] Rwanda, [5] South Africa, [6] the United Republic of Tanzania, [7] and Zambia. [8] [9] Reports from other countries; the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Ethiopia, Malawi, Somalia, Uganda and Zimbabwe, date back to periods before 1990. [10] [11]