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FOR forty-six years the Tsetse fly has been notorious as a terrible scourge to live-stock, and the most formidable of impediments to colonisation in Equatorial and South Africa. First brought into prominent notice by the explorers Gordon-Cumming Oswell and Captain Vardon, it was described by Westwood2 in 1850, under the name Glossina morsitans, from specimens collected by the last-named traveller. The genus, an ally of our common blood-sucking Stomoxys, contains six described African species, for all of which Tsetse appears now to serve as a common name.
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BLANDFORD, W. The Tsetse Fly-Disease1. Nature 53, 566–568 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053566a0
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