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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 adult female Specimen 3, lateral upper abdomen - Matsucoccus acalyptus - female
Copyright © 2015 Edward L. Ruden

NM pinyon needle scale adult female Specimen 3, lateral upper abdomen - Matsucoccus acalyptus - Female
Kirtland AFB, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
February 14, 2015
Size: 2.16 mm
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This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 316 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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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 7 March, 2015 - 10:13pm
Last updated 7 May, 2015 - 9:51pm

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Moved from Matsucoccidae.
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