Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Culex sp 2

Culex sp

Original - - Culex sp. Mosquito. Pictured in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania

Reason

Good quality and EV. Wikipedia has only one FP of mosquito. This was previously nominated here but was probably lost in the flood. Appears in the article for over 3months now.

Articles this image appears in

Culex

Creator

Muhammad Mahdi Karim

• Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 11:28, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
• This is just a question for myself. Is the abdomen of the mosquito only the brown thin or is it transparent and continues until the shinny part?  franklin  21:25, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
  • I am not sure I get your question --Muhammad(talk) 18:18, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

• In the abdomen, that line of little bright dots. Are those hairs or is it that the abdomen is transparent and that's the end of i?  franklin  14:12, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

• They are hairs, usually a sign of a male mosquito --196.45.152.109 (talk) 09:22, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

• Support Good use of limited depth of field and the bristles show up well. Noodle snacks (talk) 08:34, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Awesome shot for such a tiny little thing, I like the angle and framing. Shame we don't have a species ID, but I guess you'd have to really know you stuff to identify more precisely. J Milburn (talk) 13:13, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
  • The entomologist required more than just a picture to id the mosquito. Tricky subject + little research + taken in a remote forest = very hard to id ;-) --Muhammad(talk) 14:37, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support per J Milburn. ❄ upstateNYer ❄ 14:14, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support: Good. The bristles look great! Would you consider getting rid of the white out of focus circle, top right near the critter's leg joint? Please? In the article's taxobox, it seems disproportionately prominent. I'd try myself, but I wouldn't have a clue how to fix it, :) Maedin\^talk 22:37, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
  • My laptop has some probs. Will give it a go tomorrow at the earliest --Muhammad(talk) 15:26, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Suspended while Muhammad works on an edit. Makeemlighter (talk) 05:42, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

• Comment I put up an edit over the original since the change was very small --Muhammad(talk) 15:55, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Perfect, thanks Muhammad, :) Maedin\^talk 18:53, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Back to voting We'll give it a day to make sure nobody has a problem with this. Makeemlighter (talk) 22:40, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

• Support Good job getting all those head details in. --IP69.226.103.13 | Talk about me. 05:54, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose - Good resolution, but shallow DoF. No matter how many mosquitos are or are not featured. - ☩Damërung ☩. -- 04:49, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Culex sp..jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 11:01, 11 January 2010 (UTC)