Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Halyini nymph.jpg

Halyini nymph

Reason

Good quality and EV. The nymph had just shed its exoskeleton and thus has the pink coloured appearance.

Articles this image appears in

Pentatomidae, Pentatomoidea, Pseudatelus

Creator

Muhammad

• Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 04:49, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Support per nom
  talk) 05:04, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose - Difficult shot because of size, but have to oppose on EV grounds. Position of the nymph is not the best for ID and ID itself is very coarse. Also, the picture doesn't appear very useful inthe articles. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:49, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • The ID was provided by one of the foremost experts in Pentatomoids who admitted that identifying nymphs was very difficult. I don't see how the position affects the id for this picture though. --Muhammad(talk) 11:21, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • The genus is identified as Pseudatelus. The image is now added to that article as well; I think that fixes the coarse id part. --Muhammad(talk) 06:01, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Isn't it an idea to turn the picture 180 degrees around? --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 16:44, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I could rotate the picture but I found the bug upside down having just come out of its previous skeleton and thus thought this would carry more value. Preference for a rotated version? --Muhammad(talk) 17:08, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Some insects which live on trees live only on the underside of branches, or in other ultra-specific niches. If this bug eats sap it may live on the underside of small branches as it uses gravity as part of its eating system. Nymphs are often not possible to allocate to the species level from a single photograph, in fact, in some insect species the only way to put the nymph in a species is to use DNA. So, are we sure this nymph doesn't live upside down? If it does, rotating the image reduces the EV to 0. --KP Botany (talk) 07:04, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • I have seen the bug living on the upside as well. The moulting however took place when it was hanging upside down --Muhammad(talk) 12:00, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Good detail and quality.
  Nominate! 23:43, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
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