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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) » Mealybugs (Pseudococcidae)
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Scale insect, male, ventral - male
Copyright © 2018 Edward L. Ruden

Scale insect, male, ventral - Male
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
June 5, 2016
Size: 0.73 mm body length
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This image is from a Helicon Focus processed stack of 346 images with a 0.8 µm step taken with a Nikon BD Plan Apo 40×/0.80 210/0 mm microscope objective + adapter/extension tube + Nikon D810 camera.

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 20 October, 2018 - 8:42pm
Last updated 14 December, 2018 - 9:15pm

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