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Armored scale insect adult female within, ventral - female
Copyright © 2015 Edward L. Ruden

Armored scale insect adult female within, ventral - Female
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
January 25, 2015
Size: 0.63 mm
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This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 151 images with a 1.8 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo BD Plan APO 50×/0.55 ∞/0 mm microscope objective + Nikon 105 mm F2.5 AI portrait lens + Nikon D300 camera (magnification 26.25×; technique described here).

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Armored scale insect on pinyon, dorsal - female Armored scale insect on pinyon, lateral - female Armored scale insect adult female within, ventral - female
Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 29 January, 2015 - 10:59pm
Last updated 11 February, 2015 - 9:40pm

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