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Rear leg tarsal claws from the lesser stag beetle

Title: Standard Issue #2

 

Insight: 130 images @ 0.0003in / 6 pre stacked sets made in zerene / with Pmax & Dmap retoutching / Processed in PPPx3.

 

Tools: Olympus UM Plan FL 10x with Ping pong ball diffuser and jansjo Leds

 

Special features: Lesser Stag Beetles closely resemble female Stag Beetles, but on a smaller scale. The head is much squarer than the larger female stag beetle, and the middle tibia of the rear leg has just one spur. On a female stag beetle there are three.

 

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Uploaded on August 27, 2012
Taken on August 27, 2012