Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Colias dimera copulating

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Original – Colias dimera couple copulating, found at an altitude of 2.000 mts a.s.l., in the Andes mountains in Venezuela.

Reason: Very detailed image showing both male and female of Colias dimera mating.
Articles in which this image appears: Colias dimera
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator: Paolo Costa

Support as nominator --Paolo Costa 13:29, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Question - Why is one a vibrant yellow and the other a duller green? Is there a colour difference between sexes? Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:36, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Says so in the article: "There are two female forms: one is similar to the males, while the other is yellowish/greenish white." — raeky t 02:38, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, it is called Sexual dimorphism, not all BFs have it but this species does. --Paolo Costa 04:20, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Awesome capture of a (presumably) hard-to-catch scene. Depth-of-field is a little shallow, but the focus is in the right place. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 06:15, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Also, I think this deserves a place in the sexual dimorphism article. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 06:16, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- That article is over-illustrated as it is though, so probably not. — raeky t 18:20, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Was going to link sexual dimorphism above but thought it applied only to size differences. Very nice. Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:15, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. JJ Harrison (talk) 22:46, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support has focus problems but I think these can be forgiven for small objects like insects and I'm guessing that this is a difficult shot to get. Pine^(talk) 08:17, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Colias dimera copulating.jpg --Julia\^talk 16:09, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]