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Tsetse-flies (Glossinidae)

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The Glossinidae, or tsetse-flies, form a monogeneric family of the Diptera. The adults range in length from 6 to 14 mm and in all the 23 known species are various shades of brown — ranging from light yellowish brown to dark blackish brown. In some species the abdomen has alternate darker and lighter bands. Female flies give birth, at intervals of about nine days, to a single third-instar larva which rapidly burrows into the soil and transforms into a black puparium; according to the species, this varies in length from 3 to 8 mm.

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