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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Aschiza » Scuttle Flies (Phoridae) » Lecanocerus » Lecanocerus compressiceps
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Phorid - Lecanocerus compressiceps - male
Copyright © 2000 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

Phorid - Lecanocerus compressiceps - Male
Governor Knowles SF, Polk County, Wisconsin, USA
September 12, 2000
Size: ~2.3mm

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 18 February, 2009 - 6:48pm

what a nice pic! Phorids are
what a nice pic! Phorids are so strange sometimes...
… Martin Hauser, 19 February, 2009 - 12:50am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks Martin. Indeed they are.
… Jeff Gruber, 19 February, 2009 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Beautiful!!
Beautiul picture, great macro!. Did you use a stereoscope to take the pic?
… Mario David Bazan, 11 June, 2009 - 9:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks Mario. I am lucky enough to have access to an automontage setup. I use this setup to capture image stacks of the specimens. CombineZP is then used to montage the captured images.
… Jeff Gruber, 12 June, 2009 - 10:04am login or register to post comments

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