Glossina morsitans Westwood, 1851
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Westwood, J.O. 1851. Observations on the destructive species of dipterous insects known in Africa under the names of the tsetse, zimb and tsaltsalya, and on their supposed connexion with the fourth plague of Eygpt. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1850) 18: 258-270, 1 pl.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Glossinidae
- genus
- Glossina
- species
- Glossina morsitans
Name
- Synonyms
- Glossina centralis Machado, 1970
- Glossina congolensis Vanderplank, 1949
- Glossina orientalis Vanderplank, 1949
- Glossina pallida Shircore, 1913
- Glossina paradoxa Shircore, 1913
- Glossina sengalensis Machado, 1970
- Glossina submorsitans Newstead, 1910
- Glossina ugandensis Vanderplank, 1949
- Homonyms
- Glossina morsitans Westwood, 1851
- Common names
- tsetse fly in language.
Bibliographic References
- Westwood, J. O. (1851) Observations on the destructive species of dipterous insects known in Africa under the names of the tsetse, zimb and tsaltsalya, and on their supposed connexion with the fourth plague of Eygpt http://diptera.myspecies.info/node/6343