title: Lipoptena cervi (Diptera), a potential vector of Megatrypanum trypanosomes of deer (Cervidae).
abstract: In three different areas in northern Germany, hippoboscids were collected from red deer (Cervus elaphus). Typanosomatids were demonstrated in the midgut and hindgut of 9/37 Lipoptena cervi. The trypanosomatids were morphologically similar to vector forms of the subgenus Megatrypanum that had been found in tabanids at the same location 5 years previously. Hippoboscids are therefore potential vectors of Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) spp. that infect red deer.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Böse
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Petersen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003670:Deer / Q000469:parasitology*; D004175:Diptera / Q000469:parasitology*; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology*; D011528:Protozoan Infections / Q000635:transmission; D011529:Protozoan Infections, Animal; D014351:Trypanosomatina / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology