Glossina

Origin

From the genus name.

Full definition of glossina

Noun

1. A tsetse fly.
• 1915, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report (volume 45, page 59)The Sundi plantation employs at present nineteen labourers for catching flies, and in December they caught seventy-five glossinas.
• 1970, J. D. Fage, ‎R. A. Oliver, Papers in African Prehistory (page 76)Both trypanosomes and glossinas must have been present in Africa since very remote times.