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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera
•  Info Charaxes psaphon, Plain Tawny Rajah, is a rare butterfly found in South India, belongs to the Leafwings subfamily of Nymphalidae. Often seen feeding on fluid of rotten crab, fish, tree sap, damp patch and animal dung. Here it is puddling from the dried stream bed at Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary. C/U/N: Jkadavoor -- Jee 13:23, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jee 13:23, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 16:29, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support--Morning (talk) 16:53, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Mile (talk) 20:24, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support. Very good picture of rare butterfly, and good documentation. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:41, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 23:26, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Milseburg (talk) 23:52, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support lNeverCry 04:46, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 06:08, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment A high quality capture as usual, but the flash reflection does distort the natural colours. Charles (talk) 09:32, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

• Charles, here the flash is very weak though accidental (-3.0 FEC) as my forehead hit the flash switches in my struggles to lower myself over those pebbles. Compare with the male photos available here. Jee 11:12, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

We do have to spend too much time lying on the ground, don't we. Do you think we can train these creatures to perch at our eye level!! Charles (talk) 11:37, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose Reflections. --smial 12:27, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Very good photo technically but not enough exciting for a FP, probably owing to the little color contrast and plain composition. Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:24, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

• We can wish contrast; but camouflage is they prefer as a lower member in food chain. They have striking colors on upper-side to keep the predators away while on flight and a tawny color on underside to merge with the place they perch. Jee 03:18, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

•  Support A masterpiece of earth tones. Daniel Case (talk) 22:41, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /lNeverCry 01:12, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

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