Glossinae ab aliis dipteris magnis duabus proprietates facillime visis distingui possunt. Glossinae requiescentes alas omnino plicant, ut alia ala recte in aliam super abdomen quiescat. Eis quoque est proboscis longa, quae recte porro extenditur et distincto bulbo sub imo capite adligatur.
Glossinaefossilizatae effossae sunt ex Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorato,[4] abhinc annorum 34 milliones depositis.[5] Viginti tres species exstantes in Africa descriptae sunt.
Genus Glossina usitate in tres specierum greges diffinditur secundum proprietates distributionis, morum, molecularum, et morphologiae. In genus digeruntur:
Diptera savanensia (subgenus Morsitans, olim Glossina appellata):
Glossina austeni (Newstead, 1912)
Glossina morsitans Westwood, 1851
Glossina pallidipes (Austen, 1903)
Glossina swynnertoni (Austen, 1923)
Diptera silvestria (subgenus Fusca, olim Austenia appellata):
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