Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Weevil September 2008-1.jpg

Stout beetle

Original - Weevils are a very large group of beetles most of them with a prominent stout (rostrum), with jaws at the end, and elbowed antennae normally attached about half way along. In this species (Lixus angustatus) the body is covered with tiny yellow scales which fall with age.

Reason

It's a very detailed and high quality depiction of a weevil, showing the characteristic features of the group

Articles this image appears in

Weevil, Curculionidae

Creator

Joaquim Alves Gaspar

• Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:02, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support Detailed, nice lighting and colour. There are a few blown pixels around some of the legs etc but that is no big deal in this case. There is some sort of wierd ghosting going on just underneath the body of the insect (a darker section of the background with a hard border), that should be fixed though. Noodle snacks (talk) 02:10, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Fixed -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 07:31, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support good composition Muhammad(talk) 07:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
• Weak oppose - the leaf is in an unfortunate location, and at first glace it was difficult for me to discern where the weevil was. It blends in too well. That said, good quality pic. Intothewoods29 (talk) 15:15, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
  • The blending would be the camouflage. It is an adaptation of the weevil and thus contributes to the EV. Muhammad(talk) 19:22, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Support - Would be stronger, but the strange location confuses me... a bit. —Sunday | Speak 22:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
  • What if the picture was flipped upside down (righting the orientation of the bug)? Noodle snacks (talk) 22:52, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
    • I tried it and didn't work, it looked artificial -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:17, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support. The leaf placement is only distracting (to me, at least) in thumbnail size; at full size, the beetle's head stands out quite well against the leaf. Excellent detail, really weird creature.--ragesoss (talk) 19:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 22:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Weevil September 2008-1.jpg MER-C 08:03, 28 September 2008 (UTC)