Species Profile
Glossina
Tsetse fly
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Terrestrial parasitic insect.
Vector of sleeping sickness.
Size & Structure
01
Brown fly
02
Long proboscis
03
Overlapping wings
Glossina — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate (haemocoel)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Ventral nerve cord
- Excretory organ
- Malpighian tubules
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic (stenohaline)
- Circulatory type
- Open
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Tracheal
- Mode of excretion
- Uricotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Parasite
Food web component
Economic Importance
Vector of trypanosomiasis
Medical importance