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Rock lichen mite, ventral, slide mounted
Copyright © 2018 Edward L. Ruden

Rock lichen mite, ventral, slide mounted
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
March 31, 2018
Size: 0.48 mm
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This specimen is slide mounted in Cargille immersion oil type OVH and 1.18-1.42 NA darkfield illuminated. The image is from a Helicon Focus processed stack of 199 images with a 0.79 µm step taken with a Nikon CFI Plan 50×/0.9 ∞/- mm oil microscope objective + Nikon 135 mm F2.8 AIS telephoto lens + Nikon D810 camera (magnification 33.75×; technique described here).

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 28 May, 2018 - 4:31pm
Last updated 28 October, 2018 - 5:52pm

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