Szx12 microscope

Pinned specimens were photographed with an Olympus E-410 digital camera attached to an Olympus SZX12 microscope or with Canon 750D and MP-E-65 mm lens. Slide-mounted genitalia were photographed with a Canon EOS 600D digital camera mounted on an Olympus U-CTR30-2 trinocular head combined with a Carl Zeiss microscope body. Sets of 10–20 images were taken for each specimen and assembled to deep-focused images using Helicon Focus 6 and edited in Adobe Photoshop CS5.

The specimens were examined using an Olympus SZX12 stereomicroscope. Measurements were taken with an ocular graticule. Habitus photographs were taken using a Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 macro lens with 5:1 optical magnification on bellows attached to a Canon EOS 550D camera. Drawings were made based on photographs taken using an Olympus SZX12 microscope equipped with a Canon EOS 1100D digital camera. Images of the same specimen/structure at different focal planes were combined using Helicon Focus 5.1.19 software. To avoid artefacts due to desiccation of poorly sclerotised parts, the genitalia were illustrated mounted in dimethyl hydantoin formaldehyde resin (DMHF) on the same card as the beetle.