Glossina tachinoides

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
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Glossinidae
Genus:	Glossina
Species:	G. tachinoides
Binomial name
Glossina tachinoides Westwood, 1850
Geographic distribution of Glossina tachinoides as reported in scientific papers – Publication period 1990–2020

Distribution

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]