Glossina tachinoides | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Glossinidae |
Genus: | Glossina |
Species: | G. tachinoides |
Binomial name | |
Glossina tachinoides Westwood, 1850 | |
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Geographic distribution of Glossina tachinoides as reported in scientific papers – Publication period 1990–2020 |
Glossina tachinoides is one of the 23 recognized species of tsetse flies (genus Glossina), and it belongs to the riverine/palpalis group (subgenus Nemorhina). Glossina tachinoides can transmit African trypanosomiasis, including both the form affecting livestock and the one affecting humans. [1] [2]
Glossina tachinoides was known to occur in a broad belt in western Africa and central Africa, from Guinea in the West to the Central African Republic in the East, with a separate population further to the East in western Ethiopia. [1]
Data on the occurrence of G. tachinoides in the peer-reviewed scientific literature for the period 1990–2020 is available for 13 countries. [3] These countries are Benin, [4] Burkina Faso, [5] Cameroon, the Central African Republic, [6] Chad, [7] Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, [8] Gabon, Ghana, Mali, [9] Niger, [10] Nigeria, [11] and Togo, [12] while reports from Guinea, Sudan and present-day South Sudan date back to earlier periods. [1] [13]