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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Scales and Mealybugs (Coccoidea) » Matsucoccidae » Matsucoccus » Pinyon Needle Scale (Matsucoccus acalyptus)
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NM pinyon needle scale first stage larva, oil saturated Specimen 4 ventral - Matsucoccus acalyptus
Copyright © 2014 Edward L. Ruden

NM pinyon needle scale first stage larva, oil saturated Specimen 4 ventral - Matsucoccus acalyptus
Kirtland AFB, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
April 22, 2014
Size: 0.355 mm
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This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 107 images with a 1.8 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo BD Plan Apo 50×/0.55 ∞/0 mm microscope objective + Nikon 135 mm F2.8 AIS telephoto lens + Nikon D300 camera (magnification 33.75×; technique described here).

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NM pinyon needle scale first stage larva crawler - Matsucoccus acalyptus NM pinyon needle scale first stage larva, desiccated Specimen 1, ventral - Matsucoccus acalyptus NM pinyon needle scale first stage larva, desiccated Specimen 2, dorsal - Matsucoccus acalyptus NM pinyon needle scale first stage larva, oil saturated Specimen 3 dorsal - Matsucoccus acalyptus NM pinyon needle scale first stage larva, oil saturated Specimen 4 ventral - Matsucoccus acalyptus
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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 14 December, 2014 - 8:58pm
Last updated 21 December, 2015 - 10:39am

Moved
Moved from Matsucoccidae.
… Edward L. Ruden, 7 May, 2015 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pityococcus rugulosus.
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