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University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
 
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Laniatores

Laniatores
Duke University, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
Duke University offers a course "The Diversity of Life" currently taught by Dr. Alexander Motten. I was his TA for several years while I was in grad school. One of the annual activities is collecting invertebrates from leaf litter using a Burlese Funnel. One year this monster showed up! This photo shows the distinctive body shape of this suborder, more pear-like; the other two show the other distinctive feature, the formidable pedipalps. I took the photos by holding the lens of my camera, an Olympus pocket digital, up to the eyepiece of a dissecting microscope.

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Laniatores chelicerae and pedipalps Laniatores pedipalps Laniatores