Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eristalinus October 2007-6.jpg

Head of a hoverfly

Original - A male syrphid fly (Eristalinus taeniops) feeding on a Common Hawkweed flower. Notice how the long tongue (proboscis) is used to reach the nectar inside the flower. The eyes reaching at the top of the head (holoptic eyes) is typical of syrphid males

Alternative - Cropped version

Reason

A detailed and high quality depiction of the head of a syrphid fly, clearly showing the proboscis and compound eyes. The picture is used to illustrate various articles on the anatomy and behaviour of insects. The beauty of the unusual and gorgeous eyes is a bonus...

Articles this image appears in

Pollinator, Compound eye, Proboscis, Holoptic

Creator

Joaquim Alves Gaspar

• Support as nominator Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Moderate Oppose While the compostion is OK, it is hard to tell without reading up on it what exactly I am looking at. A better angle from the side would be better. Juliancolton (Talk) 14:50, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
  • From the side, the holoptic eyes (typical of the syrphidic males) are not visible. Please check this one. - Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:53, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but more people would be able to recognize the actual insect than the holoptic eye. I must say I like the one from the side better. Juliancolton (Talk) 15:27, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

The picture is not used to represent Hoverfly - the image is used in compound eye and holoptic only. As representatives of those the enc is excellent (imo). shas^Yarr!/_T|C 15:41, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

• Support per my reasoning above shas^Yarr!/_T|C 15:41, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support per shas. SingCal 16:31, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support original, oppose cropped edit. Samsara (FA • FP) 17:58, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Nice shot, with all necessary details in focus. In the articles mentioned, the cropped version is more enc, but I'll go with consensus there. --Janke | Talk 18:02, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support Original. The cropped version doesn't make much of a difference. Ilikefood (talk) 20:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support either Gorgeous image, and a great illustration of holoptic eyes. Slightly prefer the uncropped as the composition is better aesthetically, but I don't mind the cropped one. --liquidGhoul (talk) 05:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Eristalinus October 2007-6.jpg MER-C 08:55, 25 February 2008 (UTC)