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1. A wonderful sized piece of Dominican amber with a nice tropical stingless bee, Hymenoptera, Melipodidae, genus Proplebeia, along with a small caddis fly, Trichoptera and a very small unknown beetle, Coleoptera.
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A rather interesting piece of amber. It does have a beetle ( or roach - but small). On one side are a pair of clipped wings - really cool.
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3. You've got to love this big piece. I don't have the slightest idea what it is. The amber is big, clear and neat. There is a large 3D structure on one end - and that is what I am stumped about.
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4. If you want a large beetle, then this is it. While there is surface glazing, which can be polished out, this has a large click beetle in it, Coleoptera, Elateridae. Very clear piece.
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For the plant expert: 3 stamens,
2 bracts, a petiole and a sepal!
Of course there is a small midge, but the plant parts are very
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Small triangular piece of amber with a lot inside. There are
2 beetles, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, (leaf beetles) and another
rather large, for the piece, possibly Homoptera (?), Fulgoridea
just not sure on this one.
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Here is an interesting one. It is a cone
headed grasshopper, Orthoptera, suborder Ensifera,
Family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Copiphorinae
- the first one I have ever seen. In perfect shape. In fact on
the dorsal side is some fungus that has sporulated. You can see
the spore cases if you look very carefully on the top
side near the back. In front of the grasshopper is a leaf
beetle, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae. The piece is good sized,
about 2 inches long. This is an impressive addition to any collection!
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8. A very nice example of a springtail, Collembola. Some of the surface has a glazing so, it could use a good surface polish (on the other hand, it looks just fine as it is now.)
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 9. Neat piece of amber, good sized with some beautiful flow lines
(successive resin flows before it became amber.) There are 2 female
worker ants, Hymenoptera, Formicidae and a rather large weevil,
Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Lechriopinae.
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10. Treehopper - Homoptera, Membracidae. Rather a small one, but these are not very common to begin with. Hard to determine if it is a treehopper or not (not sure) but it is in the family of Membracidae.
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This is a small piece of Dominican amber. But it contains a
large pseudoscorpion. The pseudoscorpion is at a difficult angle
to photograph - but is easier to see 'live'. These are very
unusual animals and not often found. These animals are known
to attach on to other, larger animals and hitch a ride to a
new area.
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Here is a rather unusual beetle, a comb clawed beetle, Coleoptera, Alledulidae. The price is right on this one.
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This is a beautiful piece of amber. It has surface glazing, which can be polished out - but this has a real scarab beetle, Coleoptera, Ceratocanthinae, in it. Very nice and unusual piece.
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A very large winged termite, Isoptera. The termite is almost
so big, you do not see it at first.
There are 2 fungus gnats also, Diptera, Mycetophilidae.
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This has a lot. Most obvious are a number of termite wings. But
there is also a lycid beetle, Lycidae, a male spider, a minute fungus
beetle, Corylophidae, and even more. Some are hard to see, but
there.
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This is a long horned beetle, female, Carabidae
probably of the genus
Lebia. A beautiful
piece, small but perfect. Quite a catch.
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17. This is a beautiful
millipede. The amber is a wonderfully
clear yellow and the millipede
is visible near one side.
This really is s superb piece. Some surface glazing.
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18. 73 grams of fossilized
resin from the Dominican
Republic. This also has a half dozen wasp and a
biting midge. It is about 2.5 x 2 x 1 inch in size and very
clear. This one you have to see to appreciate - it is one heck
of a chunk of amber.
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Nice sized piece with a barklouse, Psocoptera. The barklouse is a beauty. The surface of the amber does have glazing which does not detract at all for the piece. This also has an unusual wasp.
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20. Nice cricket, Orthoptera and 2 others - an unknown beetle
and unknown Dipteran. Nice sized piece of amber, good for someone's
collection.
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Here is a fat
Pseudoscorpion among a sea
of debris. Easily seen this guy looks like he is ready
to run
out and grab something. This is a nice piece, good sized
and good
sized Pseudoscorpion.
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22. This is a cool piece, very clear with some good looking organic
debris in it. There is a single, nice, scaly barklouse near one
side, Psocoptera, Lepidopsocidae - just a good piece.
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Just a great cricket,
Orthoptera jumping along a sea of 25
million year old air bubbles. Easy to see with some great
detail about the animal. Good
price for a cricket.
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Not a particularly large piece of amber, but it has a good
cab shape. This has what I think is one of the coolest
things - a larval
Homoptern. I do not know which it is, but it is sharp. There
are a couple
female ants and a
midge and some great looking organic
debris. Just a fun piece.
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25. This is a reddish piece of amber with many air bubbles. But
even the air bubbles cannot drown out the large winged termite
in this amber.
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Here is a true bug, Hemiptera, Family Reduviidae, Emesinae
- this is an assassin bug.
The antennae are so easy to see in this animal, along with the
three-segmented proboscis. The forelegs have developed into highly
differentiated raptorial legs.
These bugs prefer to prey on other insects, which they pierce,
paralyze and subsequently feed on by
sucking. Assassin bugs are rare in Dominican amber. I am going
to take a guess and say this this is a Collarhamphus mixtus.
I cannot say enough about this piece, it is perfect with the rarest
of rare animals. This is as good
as they get. There is also another type of assassin
bug at this page.
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This is a good
piece with great clarity
throughout. The pseudoscorpion
is next to some debris
on the side of the piece. While not large, the little guy
is just
right. This is a nice addition for anyone's collection.
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A comb-clawed beetle, Alledulidae. Nice piece of amber, the beetle
is near a fracture, but still can be seen.
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square piece of amber that is cloudy on one side. There is a
nice millipede and contains about 3/4 of the body. Very interesting
segmentation to it! Thhe amber has a strong reddish tint. On the cloudy side is what looks like 2
fractions of other millipedes.
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Great piece, large and lots in it. The type you will take out
to show someone. Contains a couple of ants, one full, one single
head (probably from a fight), some nice looking flies and a bunch
of other animals we did not even try to ID.
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