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Adult male, Specimen 1 anterior-lateral head - Pityococcus rugulosus - male
Copyright © 2016 Edward L. Ruden

Adult male, Specimen 1 anterior-lateral head - Pityococcus rugulosus - Male
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
March 15, 2016
Size: 1.37 mm body length
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This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 321 images with a 2.7 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo BD Plan APO 20×/0.42 ∞/0 mm microscope objective + Nikon 200 mm F4 AIS telephoto lens + Nikon D810 camera (magnification 20×; technique described here).

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Adult male, Specimen 1, dorsal - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 1 ventral - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 1 dorsal right wing - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 1 dorsal head - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 1 anterior-lateral head - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 1 anterior-ventral-lateral head - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 1 dorsal thorax - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 2 posterior-lateral abdomen - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 2 lateral paramera - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 2 posterior-dorsal-lateral left halter - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 3 dorsal - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 3 lateral - Pityococcus rugulosus - male Adult male, Specimen 3 anterior-lateral-ventral - Pityococcus rugulosus - male
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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 12 July, 2016 - 8:32am

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