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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods
•  Info This is a nymph of Kalidasa lanata. It will be black in early instar, and later changed to bright red as here. It has no wings; but can walk very fast and leap like a grasshopper. Not friendly as the adult I nominated below. All by Jkadavoor -- Jee 02:36, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- It has a very complicated shape; so difficult to get everything in focus. This is my best attempt; I think. Jee 02:36, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
• I'll  Support. About how big was it? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:16, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

  Ikan,it is 15mm long and less than 10mm wide. It has a curved body; so eye is 5mm below the middle body. The tip of the growth is in the same level of the middle of abdomen. It looks like a small tortoise. Jee 14:01, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Oppose Tricky with big DoF needed. I like the head/eye always to be the best focus. Charles (talk) 09:53, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

  Charles, here you can see clear focus on the eye and the flexible stalk-like outgrowth arising from above the tip of the snout. But the projected body is out of focus. Better? Jee 13:56, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

  A problem we all face Jee. The head in focus on the new one, but not the body. Neither works I'm afraid as FP - they would be fine combined though! Charles (talk) 14:31, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support sharpness is sufficient imo --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 16:15, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Charles. Daniel Case (talk) 18:49, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support The visual impact and composition (head right between those two branches) overcome that little seemingly insurmountable technical shortcoming of the eyes. --cart-Talk 19:04, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Unusual viewpoint for a bug photo. Works. -- Colin (talk) 12:09, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Sure a focus stack would be nice, but those darn animals have a tendency to move around. While I agree that normally the eyes should be in focus, I think in this case the patterns of the back are what makes this image pop. --El Grafo (talk) 12:10, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

  Excellent observation, El Grafo. 1. As I stated in the previous nom, this nymph turned to one side to watch what I'm doing and made a huge leap to another branch and disappeared. 2. Yes; we can see those beautiful patterns only in the nymph stage. They will be covered by wings on adults. Jee 12:22, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

  That is one thing I like with this photo, that it seems ready to just hop away. It lends a dynamic touch to it. --cart-Talk 14:00, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Wow, never saw a critter like that before - Atsme 📞 03:17, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 10:24, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Charles. --Karelj (talk) 21:16, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose I often looked at this photo and I really like it. But unfortunately the head and nose (?) are not sharp. Also I like the composition of the other one much more. --Hockei (talk) 15:31, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 18:27, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 9 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 10:32, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods