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tsetse fly tsetse tzetze fly tzetze glossina

Bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. WordNet 3.0

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Bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Tsetse are large, biting flies that inhabit much of tropical Africa. Wikipedia

One of the large biting flies inhabiting much of mid-continental Africa between the Sahara and the Kalahari deserts Wikipedia Disambiguation

Genus of insects Wikidata

A large biting fly from Africa which live by feeding on the blood of vertebrate animals (of the family Glossinidae). OmegaWiki

Any fly of the genus Glossina, native to Africa, that feeds on human and animal blood; known primarily as a carrier of parasitic trypanosomes. Wiktionary

Fly of the genus Glossina. Wiktionary (translation)

IS A

fly

taxonomic group

PART OF

genus Glossina

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

PARENT TAXON

Glossinidae

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genus