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Well I'm confident it is a Diptera, bug with six legs and two wings !, but anyone know which species ? No bristles around the haltere, sharp kinks in 3rd and 4th veins, striped thorax, eyes black not red, yellow jowls. It is probably blindingly obvious to those who know :(

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El-Nikkor 75/4 reversed at f5.6 with 150mm extension.
Lighting - "DD" yogurt pot tube, about 1 stop underexposed by accident - I was doing some comparative tests and after shooting after 4 different stacks I didn't want to start again.
Background is MARPAT digital camo with a massive Gaussian blur, printed out and mounted 20mm behind subject.
50x102um stack, ZS PMAx, no retouching
Final image sharpened with "Ultrasharpen Superfine for web"
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I like the background for this picture much better than the previous one.
Details of the subject come out very nicely.
There are better (sharper) El Nikkors, but the 4/75 does not come out all that bad here (as far as I can see just from this picture).
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AndrewC wrote:but anyone know which species ?
Looks like the cousin of this guy,
vomitoria
i.e., vicina
NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.

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NikonUser wrote:
AndrewC wrote:but anyone know which species ?
Looks like the cousin of this guy,
vomitoria
i.e., vicina
I'm inclined the same way - I think I need to check for "hairy armpits" again ...

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