TSETSE FLY


Meaning of TSETSE FLY in English

Any of several flies of the African genus Glossina (order Diptera). These bloodsucking flies are often vectors of pathogenic trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness in human beings and trypanosomiasis in livestock. Tsetse flies are viviparous.

English glossary of entomology and crop protection.      Английский глоссарий энтомологии и защиты растений.