Lipoptena

Lipoptena
	Lipoptena cervi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Subclass:	Pterygota
Infraclass:	Neoptera
Superorder:	Endopterygota
Order:	Diptera
Suborder:	Brachycera
Infraorder:	Muscomorpha
Section:	Schizophora
Subsection:	Calyptratae
Superfamily:	Hippoboscoidea
Family:	Hippoboscidae
Subfamily:	Lipopteninae
Genus:	Lipoptena; Nitzsch, 1818
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Haemobora Curtis, 1824; Ornithobia Meigen, 1830;

Lipoptena is a genus of Hippoboscidae, known as louse flies or keds.

Species

Includes:

L. axis Maa, 1969 (Synonym L. indica Maa, 1965)
L. cervi (Linnaeus, 1758)
L. depressa (Say, 1823)
L. fortisetosa Maa, 1965 (Synonym L. parvula Theodor, 1967)
L. hopkinsi Bequaert, 1942
L. japonica Bequaert, 1942
L. mazamae (Róndani, 1878) (Synonyms L. conifera Speiser, 1905, L. mexicana Townsend, 1897, L. surinamensis Bau, 1930)
L. pacifica (Maa, 1969)
L. paradoxa Newstead, Dutton & Todd, 1907 (Synonym Echestypus parvipalpis Speiser, 1907)