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Infectibility of Tsetse Flies, Glossina palpalis (R.-D.) and G. tachinoides Westw. with Trypanosoma vivax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

F. A. Squire
F. A. Squire
Affiliation:
Senior Entomologist, Department of Agricultural Research, Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Observations were made at Dorimon in the extreme north-west of Ghana, during the hot months of March and April 1954, of the infectibility of Glossina palpalis (R.-D.) and G. tachinoides Westw. with Trypanosoma vivax.

Pupae were obtained from the Black Volta where shade temperatures ranged from 70 to 98°F. and the flies that emerged from them were kept singly in small glass tubes in the laboratory at a temperature of 85 to 95°F. and a relative humidity of 60 to 80 per cent. They were given several feeds on infected goats. The following percentage rates of infection were observed.

Labrum and (or) hypopharynx: General rate, 56·1; males of G. palpalis, 72·2, females, 34·6; males of G. tachinoides, 68·4, females, 56·8.

Labrum only and labrum & hypopharynx: General rate, 37·4; males of G. palpalis, 27·8, females, 15·4; males of G. tachinoides, 68·4, females, 40·9.

Early infection is the rule but late infections occurred. Some flies appear to be uninfectible. Thus, out of 107 flies, 47 remained uninfected in spite of having had on the average 10·6 infective meals per fly. A high percentage of flies lost their labrum infection.

The following percentage loss of labrum infection was recorded: General rate, 48.8; males of G. palpalis, 66·7, females, 62·5; males of G. tachinoides, nil, females, 43·8.

G. tachinoides appears to be more tenacious of infection than G. palpalis. Feeding infected flies on goats in the negative phase and (or) on spurwing goose (Plectropterus gambensis) did not appear to have any adverse effect on the colonies of trypanosomes in the labrum.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , March 1959 , pp. 183 - 189
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1959

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