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Type: Articles
Published: 2006-11-20
Page range: 61–68
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Substituting time-consuming pencil drawings in arthropod taxonomy using stacks of digital photographs

Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany
Arthropoda method drawing taxonomy arthropods microphotography

Abstract

The most time-consuming part of a taxonomic description is making the illustrations. This contribution shows how to save time by omitting the pencil drawings of arthropod appendages and replacing them by stacks of microphotographs. These are imported into a drawing software package on a computer in order to make a publication-ready line drawing, a technique described in detail in Coleman (2003). The photographic method requires a special treatment of the appendages which is also shown.

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