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Tag: Pelecotheca

Some more stacking …

by ChrisRPosted onOctober 25, 2011October 26, 2011

Here are a few Pelecotheca (Cryptocladocera) sp. stacks. The technique involves taking about 30 photos, each at a different focal point in the specimen and…

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My first stacks

by ChrisRPosted onApril 13, 2011April 15, 2011

Yesterday Malcolm Storey (bioimages.org.uk) brought over some new equipment he had just bought for photo-stacking, along with a ‘kit’ including a spare dSLR (3MP Nikon…

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Pelecotheca s.g. Cryptocladocera (male) (Surinam)

by ChrisRPosted onOctober 24, 2010

The Surinamese batch of flies from Menno yielded quite a lot of male Cryptocladocera – here are just 2.

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Stacking #2

by ChrisRPosted onOctober 19, 2010October 19, 2010

Here is Dave’s latest version of the Pelecotheca (Cryptocladocera) male – looking even better. To see Dave’s other photos click here.

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Stacking / compositing photographs

by ChrisRPosted onOctober 12, 2010October 19, 2010

Recently a local photographer called Dave Dare got in touch with me to ask if I could lend him some specimens so that he could…

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Pelecotheca (Cryptocladocera) sp. male (pe-taxon #25)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 25, 2010October 4, 2010

This is the only Cryptocladocera in the peruvian sample and it looks very like the ones from French Guiana – fg-taxon #04.

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Multifissicorn tachinid faces (Pelecotheca s.g. Cerotachina & Cryptocladocera)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010October 4, 2010

This is a little post just to show the range of antennal branching in different multifissicorn tachinids – apologies for the poor quality of the…

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Pelecotheca flavipes Thompson (Neominthoini, pe-taxon #16)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010January 6, 2011

After keying this taxon through MCAD it looks like one of the Neominthoini (it emerges on Neomintho, where most Neominthoini will end up) and the…

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Pelecotheca (Cerotachina) sp. male (pe-taxon #14)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010October 4, 2010

This appears to be another new, hitherto undescribed, species closely related to Cerotachina – it has no median discals and antenna-3 is very shallowly multifissicorn.…

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Pelecotheca (prob. Cryptocladocera) sp. female (fg-taxon #90)

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 8, 2009October 4, 2010

This one is unusual because the abdomen is tipped with a strange, shiny, flattened structure that resembles a squashed tube. EDIT (Monty Wood 26/9/2010): This…

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Pelecotheca (Cryptocladocera) sp. male (fg-taxon #4)

by ChrisRPosted onApril 4, 2009October 4, 2010

This is one of my favourite French Guianan tachinids! At first glance it looks fairly standard but when you examine the face you will see…

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