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Scooped Scarab male burdened with mites, ventral - Onthophagus hecate - male
Copyright © 2011 Edward L. Ruden

Scooped Scarab male burdened with mites, ventral - Onthophagus hecate - Male
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
November 7, 2011
Size: 8 mm
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This image is a CombineZP processed stack of 146 images with a 51 micron step taken with a reversed Leitz Focotar-2 enlarging lens set at F5.6 + bellows + Nikon D300.

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Scooped Scarab male burdened with mites, dorsal - Onthophagus hecate - male Scooped Scarab male burdened with mites, ventral - Onthophagus hecate - male
Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 3 December, 2011 - 11:09pm
Last updated 13 December, 2021 - 2:32pm

Moved
Moved from Uropodidae.
… Edward L. Ruden, 13 December, 2021 - 2:32pm

Moved
Moved from Scooped Scarab.
… Edward L. Ruden, 13 December, 2021 - 2:31pm

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