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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 immature male, ventral - Matsucoccus acalyptus - male
Copyright © 2015 Edward L. Ruden

NM pinyon needle scale immature male, ventral - Matsucoccus acalyptus - Male
Kirtland AFB, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
November 13, 2015
Size: 1.7 mm
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This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 170 images with a 5.6 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo M Plan APO 10×/0.28 ∞/0 mm microscope objective + Nikon 200 mm F4 AIS telephoto lens + Nikon D810 camera (magnification 10×; technique described here).

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 22 November, 2015 - 3:50pm

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