Bio-graphica International provides scientific illustration services to researchers.
Our mission is to create accurate illustrations for scientific publications and presentations.
The service includes :
....1. specimen drawing
....2. high resolution scanning
....3. cleaning of electronic file to get it ready for publication
....4. plate construction if requested
Techniques:
Pen and ink, carbon pencil on textured paper, coquille board, carbon dust.
Color Illustrations: pencil on coquille board and Adobe Photoshop usage.
Material submission :
In Nebraska, you can deliver the specimen directly to us.
If you live outside Nebraska, for the safety and preservation of the specimen you can send us printed or digital photographs or a photocopy of a line drawing of your specimen. As a guidance, please submit a photocopy of a drawing with a technique you wish us to recreate for your specimen.
Rates:
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Aura Paucar-Cabrera
Scientific Illustrator
Some illustrations from her portfolio:
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Orizabus botox
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Promacropoides bertrandi
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Spodochlamys latipes
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Strigoderma sulcipennis
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Macraspis aterrima
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Macraspis festiva
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Illustrations and plates published in: Jameson, M. L. and K. Wada. 2004. Revision of the genus Peltonotus Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from Southeastern Asia. Zootaxa 502: 1-66. Ink and carbon pencil drawings. |
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List of scientific publications where her illustrations appear:
- Ratcliffe, B.C. and R.D. Cave. 2006. The Dynastine Scarab Beetles of Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 21: 1-424. Carbon pencil and ink habitus of Orizabus botox.
- Paucar-Cabrera, A. 2005. A catalog and distributional analysis of the Rutelinae of Ecuador. Zootaxa 948: 1-92. Carbon pencil and ink habitus.
- Jameson, M. L. and K. Wada. 2004. Revision of the genus Peltonotus Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from Southeastern Asia. Zootaxa 502: 1-66. Ink and carbon pencil drawings.
- Paucar-Cabrera, A. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis of the Neotropical genus Epectinaspis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini). Coleopterists Bulletin Monographic series vol II. Ink drawings.
- Paucar-Cabrera, A. 2003. Description of the third instar larvae of Dynastes hercules (Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). In: The Dynastes of Panama and Costa Rica. Brett Ratcliffe. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 16:1-506. Ink drawings.
- Jameson, M. L., Paucar-Cabrera, A., Solís, A. 2003. synopsis of the New World genera of anomaline scarabs (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini) and description of a new genus from Costa Rica. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 96(4):415-432. Ink drawings.
- Morón, M. A. and Paucar-Cabrera, A. 2003. Larvae and pupae of species of the genus Macraspis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini). The Canadian Entomologist 135: 437-491. Ink drawings.
- Paucar-Cabrera, A. and A.B.T. Smith. 2002. Description of the third instar larvae of Platycoelia gaujoni and Platycoelia lutescens (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini). Coleopterists Bulletin 56(3): 438-445. Ink drawings.
- Jameson, M. L., B. C. Ratcliffe, and V. Maly. 2002. Review of the genus Acrobalbia with remarks on its classification, and a key to the world genera of Cyclocephalini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Folia Heyrovskyana 10(1): 1-15. Ink drawings.
- Paucar-Cabrera, A., F. C. Ocampo, and A.B.T. Smith. In prep. Larvae of three species of Brachysternus (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini). Ink drawings.
- Jiménez-Ruiz, F. A. In prep. Internal parasites. Ink drawings.
- Ocampo, F. C. In prep. Anchylotarsus species. Ink drawings.
- Ocampo, F. C. In prep. Neogutierrezia species. Ink drawings and carbon pencil on textured paper
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