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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies (Neuroptera) » Lacewings and Allies (Hemerobiiformia) » Beaded Lacewings (Berothidae) » Lomamyia
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Beaded Lacewing - Lomamyia
Copyright © 2006 Cotinis

Beaded Lacewing - Lomamyia
Parkwood, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
August 13, 2006
Size: 13 mm
At my porch light. Size measured--about 13 mm from head to wingtips, about 10 mm body length.

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Contributed by Cotinis on 14 August, 2006 - 12:29pm
Last updated 14 August, 2006 - 9:40pm

#70706 Identification – Lomamyia sp. (probably flavicornis)
Identification.
… John D. Oswald, 12 May, 2007 - 8:31pm login or register to post comments

Wow,
great shots, Patrick.
… Lynette Elliott, 15 August, 2006 - 3:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Have to blame technology
I have to blame Canon technology, partly. I found an MPE-65 mm 1X-5X macro used and also traded some other equipment for it. Very nice, but heavy and hard to focus (manual). In the detail shots here I managed to rig a little LED headlamp to give me enough light to focus. A macro flash (also expensive--uggh) is essential. If you can get it in focus and hold it steady to keep in focus, the results are quite good between 1X and 2X. I hope to use this rig some more in the future to illustrate details of things needing high magnification, such as beetle tarsi. For example, I used it for this shot of a Lucanid antenna:


Good reviews of the lens are here, and here.
… Cotinis, 15 August, 2006 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

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