Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Image:Moth September 2008-3.jpg

Pine Processionary Moth

 * Reason:a detailed and high quality depiction of a Pine Processionary Moth. The unusual position of the wings (which are drying after the moth was immersed) and teh fact they have lost most of their scales permit to depict some characteristic features of the family (the wing venation and the stout body) and of the species (the white hindwing, the dark mark on the underside of the forewing and the frontal protuberance). Also, this particular view clearly shows a distinctive feature of most moths, the frenulum, which is a bristle springing from the underside of the hindwing and running forward to be held in a small catch (also visible) on the underside of the forewing, the function of the mechanism being to held the wings together when in flight.
 * Articles this image appears in:Moth, Thaumetopoeidae, Pine Processionary
 * Creator:Alvesgaspar (talk)


 * Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:08, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support No real problems. MER-C 10:36, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Good EV.  Sophus Bie  (talk) 01:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support.  howcheng  {chat} 06:09, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

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