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Tsetse fly

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Tsetse fly

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Suborder:Brachycera
Infraorder:Cyclorrhapha
Section:Schizophora
Subsection:Calyptratae
Superfamily:Hippoboscoidea
Family:Glossinidae
Genus:Glossina
Species:morsitans
Binomial name
Glossina morsitans

The tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans, is a fly (order Diptera) that eats blood from animals, including humans.

The tsetse fly can carry the protozoa human pathogen Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness. Tsetse flies have specialized cells that contain bacterial endosymbionts.