Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-22T18:47:17.108Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A note on Glossina medicorum Aust. (Diptera) in Ghana.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

R. F. Chapman
R. F. Chapman
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Birkbeck College, London.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Glossina medicorum Aust. was collected in considerable numbers in thicket near to Accra, Ghana. The habitat was unusual in that the thicket rarely exceeded 15 ft. in height and big trees were entirely absent. Grassy open spaces within the thicket provided the feeding grounds and a list of possible hosts is given.

There was some suggestion of an association between the abundance of flies and the rainfall in 1958 but noti in 1959, while the size of the flies was inversely correlated with the saturation deficit.

Type
Research Paper
Information
Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , November 1960 , pp. 435 - 440
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Jackson, C. H. N. (1946). An artificially isolated generation of tsetse flies (Diptera).—Bull. ent. Res. 37 pp. 291–299.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mlorris, K. R. S. (1934). The bionomics and importance of Glossina longipalpis, Wied., in the Gold Coast.—Bull. ent. Res. 25 pp. 309–335.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nash, T. A. M. (1948). Tsetse flies in British West Africa.—77 pp. London, Colon. Off., H.M.S.O.Google Scholar
Nash, T. A. M. (1952). Some observations on resting tsetse-fly populations, and evidence that Glossina medicorum is a carrier of trypanosomes.—Bull. ent. Res. 43 pp. 33–42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nash, T. A. M. [1959]. West African Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research. Annual report, 1958.—35 pp.Google Scholar
Nash, T. A. M. & Davey, J. T. (1950). The resting habits of Glossina medicorum, G. fusca and G. longipalpis.—Bull. ent. Res. 41 pp. 153–157.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Page, W. A. (1959). Some observations on the fusca group of tsetse flies (Glossina) in the south of Nigeria.—Bull. ent. Res. 50 pp. 633–646.CrossRefGoogle Scholar