Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Doleschallia bisaltide (Autumn Leaf)

Doleschallia bisaltide (Autumn Leaf)

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File:Doleschallia bisaltide bisaltide (Autumn Leaf) - male, January 2013, Singapore.jpg

Original – The Autumn Leaf resembles a dead leaf, enabling it to blend into its environment if it is resting among dead leaves or plants.

Reason: It's parallel, and has good exposure, composition, sharpness, and details.
Articles in which this image appears: Autumn Leaf, Defense in insects, Butterfly
FP category for this image: Animals
Creator: Arctic Kangaroo

Support as nominator -- Arctic Kangaroo (✉ • ✎) 16:20, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Question. Is the underside generally most helpful to show (big color difference here). Also, in article, it suffers from placement in the infobox instead of a larger placement below (perhaps centered) with supporting discussion of the features of the anatomy.TCO (talk) 22:52, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

? Arctic Kangaroo (✉ • ✎) 15:35, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Neither the ventral nor dorsal sides are inherently more valuable. They're both on the animal. It would be like arguing about the obverse or reverse of a coin being more important. The infobox is just where most of these images go, they're also the ones which seem to be most likely to be clicked. Cowtowner (talk) 19:11, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom Great details; I never see the wing scales this much clear in a in vivo shot. J Kadavoor J e e 07:03, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Now this work is on the edge for a speedy promotion in Commons; but almost neglected here. I think this is comparable to File:Kallima inachus qtl1.jpg; so this view and placement in article seems OK. Further, these dead leaf butterflies prefer to perch with their wings closed. It is part of their survival tricks. They prefer to perch downwards whenever possible as in the other example to boost the dead leaf mimic. (They occasionally show their colorful upper-side to attract their mates.) J Kadavoor J e e 04:05, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:21, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]