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Specimen 1, lateral - Sphaerius
Copyright © 2015 Edward L. Ruden

Specimen 1, lateral - Sphaerius
Highland Lake, Blount County, Alabama, USA
December 26, 2014
Size: 0.83 mm (sans genitalia)
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This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 162 images with a 2.7 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo BD Plan APO 20×/0.42 microscope objective + Nikon 300 mm F4 AF ED IF macro lens + Nikon D810 camera (magnification 30×; technique described here).

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Specimen 1, dorsal - Sphaerius Specimen 1, lateral - Sphaerius Specimen 2, ventral - Sphaerius Specimen 2, ventral close - Sphaerius Specimen 3, dorso-lateral, wings spread - Sphaerius Specimen 3, dorsal folded left wing - Sphaerius Specimen 3, lateral close (left palp missing) - Sphaerius Specimen 3, anterior (left palp missing) - Sphaerius
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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 29 December, 2015 - 12:16pm

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