An African insect (
Glossina morsitans ) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ( Mendax interminabilis ).
Development of thoracic muscle and flight behaviour of
Glossina morsitans orientalis Vanderplank.
Tsetse-fly (
Glossina morsitans) in the Koalib Hills, Nuba Mountains Province, Sudan.
samples Group Species tested Fleas Ctenocephalides felis 48 Echidnophaga gallinacea 150 Synosternus pallidus 41 Tsetse flies
Glossina morsitans 78 submorsitans Hard ticks Amblyomma variegatum 492 Rhipicephalus decoloratus 40 R.
sinica NURP1 was found to share 31%-40% similarity to those in vertebrates including human, cattle, mouse, rat, frog, salmon, and zebrafish; 51% similarity to that in other chordates (amphioxus); and 56%-64% similarity with invertebrates (including fruit fly, mosquito, and the tsetse fly
Glossina morsitans).
leonum Westwood, 1851 as being an accidental parasite of
Glossina morsitans Westwood, 1851 (Diptera: Glossinidae), but the source of this information remains unclear.
The first species to be colonized was
Glossina morsitans morsitans using in vivo feeding (live animals such as goats, rabbits and guinea pigs).
Several species attack economically important flies, such as the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata; Tephritidae) and Tsetse fly (
Glossina morsitans; Glossinidae; J.
They are transmitted by bites of the tsetse flies (
Glossina morsitans).
East African sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly (genus
Glossina morsitans)[1].
Mortalities in adult
Glossina morsitans morsi tans experimentally infected with the entomogenous fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae.
