Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Marpesia zerynthia.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 May 2012 at 13:25:38 (UTC)

Original – Marpesia zerinthia butterfly found in the Andes mountains in Venezuela, at an altitude of aproximately 1000 mts a.s.l.

Reason: High quality, beautiful subject, good detail. Species identification is correct.
Articles in which this image appears: Marpesia_(butterfly)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator: Paolo Costa

Support as nominator --Paolo Costa 13:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Question - What is on its wings about four spines down? Is that dust? Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:41, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I really have no idea. Maybe some dust, could be. --Paolo Costa 04:18, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dust or not it really is quite striking from thumbnail through to full res. Saffron Blaze (talk) 10:11, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support this is a nice composition, with the subject well detached from the background, while in natural habitat. Valuable as the only image of this subspecies we have. Good level of detail. Were you just outside Tapo-Caparo National Park? --ELEKHH^T 13:03, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I must have been inside the NP, since I was heading from Canaguá to Guaimaral, and both towns are part of it. BTW, the file is geotagged. --Paolo Costa 20:28, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Dust not that big of an issue when we have such a fine, detailed image of a butterfly Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:16, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - per nom. Sanyambahga (talk) 06:18, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support has some focus problems on the back of the wing but the main body of the insect is clear. With small objects like insects I think we can be a little more forgiving about focus issues. Pine^(talk) 08:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Marpesia zerynthia.jpg --Julia\^talk 15:59, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]