Glossina brevipalpis

Glossina brevipalpis is one of the 23 recognized species of tsetse flies, it belongs to the forest/fusca group.

Distribution

Glossina brevipalpis was known to be widely scattered in eastern Africa, from Somalia and Ethiopia in the North to South Africa in the South. A recent review of the scientific literature for the period 1990 – 2020 corroborated these earlier reports for 6 countries; Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania, and Zambia. Reports from other countries; the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Ethiopia, Malawi, Somalia, Uganda and Zimbabwe, date back to periods before 1990.