Glossina

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  glossina \glossina\ n.
     A blood-sucking African fly that transmits sleeping sickness
     etc.; the tsetse fly.
  
     Syn: tsetse fly, tsetse, tzetze fly, tzetze.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glossina
       n : blood-sucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
           [syn: {tsetse fly}, {tsetse}, {tzetze fly}, {tzetze}]