A new species of Lipoptena (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from southern Africa

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Visagie, Elize J.

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Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute.

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A new species of Lipoptena Nitzsch, 1818 was found on springbok Antidorcas marsupialis Zimmerman, 1780 in the Cape Province and the Orange Free State, South Africa. The flies, for which the name Lipoptena annalizeae is proposed, can be differentiated from the closely related Lipoptena sepiacea Speiser, 1905 on size, palps, chaetotaxy, pulvilli, and the shape of the posterior genital plates of the males. The morphology of the puparium of the new species is also described and compared with that of the puparia of Lipoptena paradoxa Newstead, 1907 and Lipoptena binocula (Speiser, 1908). A revised key to the southern African species and a summary of host records and distributional information is also presented.

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Veterinary medicine

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Visagie, EJ 1992, 'A new species of Lipoptena (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from southern Africa’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 293-302.