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Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)Subphylum: Hexapoda BLAINVILLE, 1816Class: Insecta LINNAEUS, 1758 (insects, Insekten)Subclass: PterygotaInfraclass: Neoptera MARTYNOV, 1923Order: Diptera LINNAEUS, 1758 (true flies, mosquitoes & gnats, Zweiflgler)Suborder: Brachycera SCHINER, 1862 (true flies, Echte FliegenInfraorder: MuscomorphaSuperfamily: HippoboscoideaFamily: Hippoboscidae SAMOUELLE, 1819 (louse flies or keds, Lausfliegen)Subfamily: LipopteninaeGenus: Lipoptena NITZSCH, 1818Lipoptena cervi LINNAEUS, 1758 (Deer Ked, Hirschlausfliege)E-Germany, Brandenburg, Cottbus: vic. Byhlen, 03.10.2013IMG_3326
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Verwood, England, United Kingdom
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L: 5-7mm, deer fly are ectoparasites and feed on blood. They usually attacks deer, occasionally horses or humans; they may transmit the bacterium: Bartonella schoenbuchensis. This deer fly had broke off its wings - or the wings broke off when I grabbed her - and tried to pierce my neck, before I replaced her on this tissue for shooting.Lipoptena cervi LINNAEUS, 1758Genus: LipoptenaFamily: Hippoboscidae (louse flies or keds, Lausfliegen)Suborder: Brachycera (true flies, Fliegen)Order: Diptera (Zweiflgler)Subclass: PterygotaClass: InsectaSubphylum: HexapodaPhylum: ArthropodaNE-Slovakia, Slovak Paradise (Slovak: Slovensk raj) National Park, vic Cingov, ca. 1000m asl., 11.10.2011IMG_4994
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Peglio, Lombardy, Italy
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L: 5-7mm, deer fly are ectoparasites and feed on blood. They usually attacks deer, occasionally horses or humans; they may transmit the bacterium: Bartonella schoenbuchensis. This deer fly had broke off its wings - or the wings broke off when I grabbed her - and tried to pierce my neck, before I replaced her on this tissue for shooting.Lipoptena cervi LINNAEUS, 1758Genus: LipoptenaFamily: Hippoboscidae (louse flies or keds, Lausfliegen)Suborder: Brachycera (real flies, Fliegen)Order: Diptera (Zweiflgler)Subclass: PterygotaClass: InsectaSubphylum: HexapodaPhylum: ArthropodaNE-Slovakia, Slovak Paradise (Slovak: Slovensk raj) National Park, vic Cingov, ca. 600-700m asl., 11.10.2011IMG_5004
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L: 5-7mm, deer fly are ectoparasites and feed on blood. They usually attacks deer, occasionally horses or humans; they may transmit the bacterium: Bartonella schoenbuchensis. This deer fly had broke off its wings - or the wings broke off when I grabbed her - and tried to pierce my neck, before I replaced her on this tissue for shooting.Lipoptena cervi LINNAEUS, 1758Genus: LipoptenaFamily: HippoboscidaeSuborder: Brachycera (flies, Fliegen)Order: DipteraClass: InsectaPhylum: ArthropodaNE-Slovakia, Slovak Paradise (Slovak: Slovensk raj) National Park, vic Cingov, 700-800m asl., 11.10.2011IMG_4991