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Very small insect found on my neck - Lipoptena cervi
Copyright © 2009 marvin Turner

Very small insect found on my neck - Lipoptena cervi
Montauk, Suffolk County, New York, USA
October 7, 2009
Size: aprox 3mm
Difficult to dislodge-- hooked feet
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Contributed by marvin Turner on 12 October, 2009 - 9:51am
Last updated 17 January, 2018 - 2:16pm

Moved
Moved from Lipoptena.
… John F. Carr, 17 January, 2018 - 2:16pm login or register to post comments

L. cervi
Lipoptena cervi is the only species of the genus known from New York.
… Michael Skvarla, 15 November, 2017 - 1:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Lipopteninae.
… v belov, 2 October, 2015 - 1:03pm login or register to post comments

Can you contact us by email?
Our address is on our contributor page. You'll have to adjust it to a real email address. Thanks.
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Moved
Moved from Louse Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 29 June, 2011 - 10:50am login or register to post comments

You keep pigeons?
If you keep birds, hunt them, or hunt deer, these flies can come off of those animals when the host dies. They are definitely not parasitic on humans, just to clarify:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 13 October, 2009 - 12:30pm login or register to post comments

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Look in
Hippoboscidae (Louse Flies)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/13382/bgimage
… John R. Maxwell, 12 October, 2009 - 10:12am login or register to post comments

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