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===Species=== {{more citations needed section|date=October 2020}} The tsetse genus is generally split into three groups of species based on a combination of distributional, ecological, behavioral, molecular and morphological characteristics.<ref name="Krafsur-2009">{{cite journal | last=Krafsur | first=E.S. | title=Tsetse flies: Genetics, evolution, and role as vectors | journal=[[Infection, Genetics and Evolution]] | publisher=[[Elsevier]] | volume=9 | issue=1 | year=2009 | issn=1567-1348 | doi=10.1016/j.meegid.2008.09.010 | pages=124β141 | s2cid=36305169 | pmid=18992846 | pmc=2652644}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cecchi |first=G. |last2=Mattioli |first2=R. C. |last3=Slingenbergh |first3=J. |last4=De La Rocque |first4=S. |title=Land cover and tsetse fly distributions in subβSaharan Africa |url=https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00747.x |journal=Medical and Veterinary Entomology |language=en |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=364β373 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00747.x |issn=0269-283X}}</ref> The genus includes; savannah flies, forest flies and riverine and lacustrine flies.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marchiori |first=Carlos Henrique |date=2021 |title=Study of the characteristics of the Glossinidae family (Muscoidea, Oestroidea) |url=https://sciresjournals.com/ijstra/content/study-characteristics-glossinidae-family-muscoidea-oestroidea |journal=International Journal of Science and Technology Research Archive |language=en |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=088β107 |doi=10.53771/ijstra.2021.1.2.0050 |issn=0799-6632}}</ref> ==== Savannah flies ==== [[File:Geographic distribution of the morsitans group, subgenus Glossina s.s., as reported in scientific papers β Publication period 1990β2020.png|thumb|Geographic distribution of the morsitans group, subgenus Glossina s.s., as reported in scientific papers β Publication period 1990β2020]] The 'savannah' flies: (''Morsitans group'', subgenus ''Glossina'' s.s.): * ''[[Glossina austeni]]'' <small>([[Robert Newstead|Newstead]], 1912) [[patronymic taxon|patr.]] of [[Ernest Edward Austen|Austen]]</small> * ''[[Glossina longipalpis]]'' <small>(Wiedemann, 1830)</small> * ''[[Glossina morsitans]]'' <small>(Westwood, 1851)</small> ** ''[[Glossina morsitans morsitans]] (Westwood, 1850)'' ** ''[[Glossina morsitans submorsitans]]''<ref name="Gooding-Krafsur-2005" /> ** ''[[Glossina morsitans centralis]]'' (Machado, 1970) * ''[[Glossina pallidipes]]'' <small>([[Ernest Edward Austen|Austen]], 1903)</small> * ''[[Glossina swynnertoni]]'' <small>([[Ernest Edward Austen|Austen]], 1923)<ref name="swyn-GBIF">[[GBIF]]: {{GBIF|id=5055987}} 5055987</ref><ref name="Austen-1922" /> [[patronymic taxon|patr.]] of [[Charles Francis Massy Swynnerton|Swynnerton]]</small><ref name="Austen-1922">{{cite journal | last=Austen | first=E. E. | author-link=Ernest Edward Austen | title=A New East African Tsetse-fly (Genus ''Glossina'', Wied.), which apparently disseminates sleeping sickness | journal=[[Bulletin of Entomological Research]] | publisher=[[Cambridge University Press|CUP]] | volume=13 | issue=3 | date=1922 | issn=0007-4853 | doi=10.1017/s0007485300045417 | pages=311β315 | s2cid=86238434| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/49465 }}</ref> ==== Forest flies ==== [[File:Geographic distribution of the fusca group, subgenus Austenina, as reported in scientific papers β Publication period 1990β2020.png|thumb|Geographic distribution of the fusca group, subgenus Austenina, as reported in scientific papers β Publication period 1990β2020]] The 'forest' flies: (''Fusca'' group, subgenus ''Austenina''): <!--<small>(Newstead and Evans, 1921)</small> [what is this - G.fusca austenia?] --> * ''[[Glossina brevipalpis]]'' <small>(Newstead, 1910)</small> * ''[[Glossina fusca]]'' <small>(Walker, 1849)</small> ** ''[[Glossina fusca fusca]]'' <small>(Walker, 1849)</small> ** ''[[Glossina fusca congolensis]]'' <small>(Newstead and Evans, 1921)</small> * ''[[Glossina fuscipleuris]]'' <small>([[Ernest Edward Austen|Austen]], 1911)</small> * ''[[Glossina frezili]]'' <small>(Gouteux, 1987)</small><ref name="Gouteux-1987">{{cite journal |author=J. P. Gouteux |title=Une nouvelle glossine du Congo: ''Glossina'' (''Austenina'') ''frezili'' sp. nov. (Diptera: Glossinidae) |journal=[[Tropical Medicine and Parasitology]]|volume=38 |issue=2 |year=1987 |pages=97β100 |pmid=3629143|s2cid=91006636|trans-title=A new tsetse fly from the Congo: ''Glossina (Austenina) frezili'' sp. nov. (Diptera: Glossinidae)|publisher=[[Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft]]|language=fr}}</ref> * ''[[Glossina haningtoni]]'' <small>([[Robert Newstead|Newstead]] and Evans, 1922)</small> * ''[[Glossina longipennis]]'' <small>(Corti, 1895)</small> * ''[[Glossina medicorum]]'' <small>([[Ernest Edward Austen|Austen]], 1911)</small> * ''[[Glossina nashi]]'' <small>(Potts, 1955)</small> * ''[[Glossina nigrofusca]] <small>([[Robert Newstead|Newstead]], 1911)</small>'' ** ''[[Glossina nigrofusca nigrofusca]]'' <small>([[Robert Newstead|Newstead]], 1911)</small> ** ''[[Glossina nigrofusca hopkinsi]]'' <small>(van Emden, 1944)</small> * ''[[Glossina schwetzi]]'' <small>([[Robert Newstead|Newstead]] and Evans, 1921)</small> * ''[[Glossina severini]]'' <small>([[Robert Newstead|Newstead]], 1913)</small> * ''[[Glossina tabaniformis]]'' <small>(Westwood, 1850)</small> * ''[[Glossina vanhoofi]]'' <small>(Henrard, 1952)</small> ==== Riverine and lacustrine flies ==== [[File:Geographic distribution of palpalis group, subgenus Nemorhina, as reported in scientific papers β Publication period 1990β2020.png|thumb|Geographic distribution of palpalis group, subgenus Nemorhina, as reported in scientific papers β Publication period 1990β2020]] The 'riverine' and 'lacustrine' flies: (''Palpalis'' group, subgenus ''Nemorhina''): * ''[[Glossina caliginea]]'' <small>([[Ernest Edward Austen|Austen]], 1911)</small> * ''[[Glossina fuscipes]]'' <small>([[Robert Newstead|Newstead]], 1911)</small> ** ''[[Glossina fuscipes fuscipes]]'' <small>([[Robert Newstead|Newstead]], 1911)</small><ref name="Gooding-Krafsur-2005" /> ** ''[[Glossina fuscipes martinii]]'' <small>(Zumpt, 1935)</small> ** ''[[Glossina fuscipes quanzensis]]'' <small>(Pires, 1948)</small> * ''[[Glossina pallicera]] <small>(Bigot, 1891)</small>'' ** ''[[Glossina pallicera pallicera]]'' <small>(Bigot, 1891)</small> ** ''[[Glossina pallicera newsteadi]]'' <small>([[Ernest Edward Austen|Austen]], 1929) [[patronymic taxon|patr.]] of [[Robert Newstead|Newstead]]</small> * ''[[Glossina palpalis]]'' <small>(Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)</small> ** ''[[Glossina palpalis palpalis]]'' <small>(Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)</small> ** ''[[Glossina palpalis gambiensis]]'' <small>(Vanderplank, 1911)</small> * ''[[Glossina tachinoides]]'' <small>(Westwood, 1850)</small>
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