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

Glossina brevipalpis was known to be widely scattered in eastern Africa, from Somalia and Ethiopia in the North to South Africa in the South.

[1] A recent review of the scientific literature for the period 1990 – 2020 corroborated these earlier reports for 6 countries;[2] Kenya,[3] Mozambique,[4] Rwanda,[5] South Africa[6], the United Republic of Tanzania,[7] and Zambia.

[8] Reports from other countries; the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Ethiopia, Malawi, Somalia, Uganda and Zimbabwe, date back to periods before 1990.

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