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Posted by Maherjos on 19-11-2012 09:31

I've been photographing recently, several specimens of Collembola.
I think there are at least three different species.
An expert can tell me something about your identity.? :)

Thanks in advance for your help.

Edited by Maherjos on 24-11-2012 22:25

Posted by BubikolRamios on 19-11-2012 15:31

The fat ones dicyrtomina.
See this: http://www.collem...llembo.htm
Contact author there, only one that I know that can tell you something with decent certainty.

Greta images ! Doubt that focus stacked. How did you do it ?

Posted by Maherjos on 19-11-2012 22:39

BubikolRamios wrote:
The fat ones dicyrtomina.
See this: http://www.collem...llembo.htm
Contact author there, only one that I know that can tell you something with decent certainty.

Greta images ! Doubt that focus stacked. How did you do it ?

I appreciate your information.
I will try to follow that path.

I also appreciate your positive review of my photos. None of these pictures is stacked. They are direct shots without tripod. With the bug alive and moving. With X5 increases. This allows the lens MP-E 65mm Canon.
The first photo is made with 100mm lens, Canon macro, with added a magnifying lens.
All photos remain the Exif data, which can be consulted.

With stack I can get much more detail, with much higher increases. With stacking, I can reach up to more than 25x magnification.

Thanks for everything.

Best regards.

Posted by Moo on 21-11-2012 17:41

#10

Consider posting them to http://www.flickr.com/groups/334033@N24/
Frans Janssens (of collembola.org) frequents that group.
Good photos - that lens is "the springtail lens" ;)

I'll guess Dicyrtomina ornata, Dicyrtomina minuta, and maybe Entomobrya intermedia juv.

Posted by Maherjos on 22-11-2012 19:25

#11

Very grateful for your advice, Moo.
In fact, through the link given above by BubikolRamios, had sent an email to Collembola specialist Frans Janssens, sending these pictures. And has been kind enough to answer my email, letting me know the identification of these Collembola, which tells me are:
1 & 2 = Jordanathrix articulata
3, 4 & 5 = Dicyrtomina ornata
6 & 7 = Entomobrya nicoleti

The order of numbering is the same as store photos uploaded to this forum.

I want here to thank the specialist Frans Janssens, without whose help and cooperation, continue ignoring the identity of these small and curious critters. |t

Best regards from southern Spain.

Edited by Maherjos on 24-11-2012 20:44

Posted by Maherjos on 24-11-2012 21:06

#12

Sorry ... :S I was confused, identifications made by Frans Janssens, with references to my pictures ....
Now they are corrected. Now everything is OK. :)