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Genus Lipoptena

Bug I found on my goats in VT - Lipoptena cervi Deer Ked - Lipoptena cervi Lipoptena mazamae Rondani - Lipoptena mazamae Louse fly - Lipoptena depressa Lipotena spp. mazamae? - Lipoptena mazamae Lipoptena depressa? - Lipoptena Tiny bug - Lipoptena Hippoboscidae: Lipoptena depressa? - Lipoptena
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Hippoboscoidea
Family Hippoboscidae (Louse Flies)
Subfamily Lipopteninae
Genus Lipoptena
Explanation of Names
Lipoptena ‎Nitzsch‎ 1818
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1), 30 total(2)
Identification
key to spp. in (1)
Range
by far most diverse in the Old World tropics (only 4 spp. in the New World)(3); in our area(1):
L. cervi ne US (NH-VA; introduced from Europe)
L. depressa w NA (BC-CA to AB-CO)
L. mazamae se US (VA-FL to MO-TX)
Works Cited
1.Deer Keds (Diptera: Hippoboscidae: Lipoptena and Neolipoptena) in the United States and Canada...
Skvarla M.J., Machtinger E.T. 2019. J. Med. Entomol. XX(X): 1-17.
2.Checklist of World Hippoboscidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea)
Dick C.W. 2006.
3.Manual of Central American Diptera
Brian V. Brown et al. 2009. NRC Research Press.
Contributed by Keith Bayless on 22 November, 2007 - 7:22pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 29 July, 2019 - 1:46pm

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