The determination of the geographical boundaries between two subspecies of tsetse flies in the Ivory Coast: Glossina palpalis (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) and G.p.gambiensis (Vanderplank, 1949)
Nekpeni, E.B.; Dagnogo, M.; Eouzan, J.P.
Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Official Organ of Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft and of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit 40(1): 12-15
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0177-2392 PMID: 2544980 Document Number: 339307
The biometric analysis of the male genitalia of Glossina palpalis palpalis and Glossina palpalis gambiensis about samples caught along four bits of road in Côte d'Ivoire permitted to determine the geographic limit between both subspecies. G. p. palpalis is everywhere in the Guinean area whereas G. p. gambiensis is found in the Sudanese one. In the wet savanna, both subspecies live together and mate to give out a reduced number of hybrids.