Green Beetle

Ultima_Gaina · Post by **Ultima_Gaina** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:51 pm

Any chance to get some help with its identification?
(x10 magnification => ~2 mm frame width

Ultima_Gaina · Post by **Ultima_Gaina** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:06 pm

Same beetle viewed from above

Still cannot tell which one it is. It looks like a metallic jewel beetle, maybe a wood boring beetle?

Ultima_Gaina · Post by **Ultima_Gaina** » Tue Apr 18, 2017 5:52 pm

.. and here is 100% zoom on that ~0.6mm right wing scar @ roughly x7 magnification

About 0.2mm and about 15-17 scales between those vertical lines.
So a scale must be around 12 microns.

MacroLab3D · Post by **MacroLab3D** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:26 pm

All i can say - Amazing. Do you have flickr? FBook?

Saul · Post by **Saul** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 3:33 pm

Impressive. Very nice light. Can you share, please, more details about you setup ? Links to the higher res photos ?
Thanks,

Ultima_Gaina · Post by **Ultima_Gaina** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:02 pm

Saul wrote:Impressive. Very nice light. Can you share, please, more details about you setup ? Links to the higher res photos ?
Thanks,

Here is my setup:

I used a Nikon CFI plan fluor 10x attached to a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II and an old Canon 500D.

The system is built around a Velbon macro rail with Servocity components. The electronics and the software are adapted from the Fast Stacker, already presented on this forum.

The lighting is made with 4 Ikea Janso Led lights diffused by a foam cup from Walmart.

First photo is made at x10, second one is a vertical panorama made of 4 frames at x7. Each frame had about 450 shots.

The step size was 5 and 7.5 microns.

I don't have a link with high res images.

MarkSturtevant · Post by **MarkSturtevant** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:17 pm

The beetle is in the order Carabidae (the 'ground beetles). I don't know more than that. This is a similar species, but not the exact one:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/60633