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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Featherwing[ed] Beetles (Ptiliidae) » Acrotrichinae » Acrotrichini » Acrotrichis
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Featherwing beetle, right wing - Acrotrichis
Copyright © 2013 Edward L. Ruden

Featherwing beetle, right wing - Acrotrichis
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
May 8, 2011
Size: 0.9 mm body
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The vertical field of view of this image is 0.64 mm.

This image is a CombineZP processed stack of 242 images with a 0.9 µm step taken with a Nikon CF BD 50X/0.90 ∞/- Apo microscope objective + Nikon 105 mm F2.5 portrait lens + Nikon D300 camera (magnification 26.25X; technique described here).

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 22 October, 2013 - 10:59pm
Last updated 28 October, 2013 - 9:57pm

wow!
That's a cool pic. Nice series!
… Jeff Gruber, 23 October, 2013 - 7:30am login or register to post comments

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