Glossina medicorum

Glossina medicorum is one of the 23 recognized species of tsetse flies (genus Glossina), and it belongs to the forest/fusca group (subgenus Austenina).

Glossina medicorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Glossinidae
Genus:	Glossina
Species:	G. medicorum
Binomial name
Glossina medicorum Austen, 1911
Geographic distribution of Glossina medicorum as reported in scientific papers – Publication period 1990–2020

Distribution

Western Africa was historically known to be the main region of occurrence of Glossina medicorum, from Liberia in the West to Nigeria in the East,^[1] but the species was also reported or suggested from the Central African Republic, the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Sierra Leone and Uganda.^[2][3][4] However, a review of the scientific literature from 1990 – 2020 found confirmation of G. medicorum occurrence for only three countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Togo.^[5][6][7][8]