Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Peacock pansy (Junonia almana almana) dry season form Nepalgunj.jpg

File:Peacock pansy (Junonia almana almana) dry season form Nepalgunj.jpg

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Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Family_:_Nymphalidae_(Brush-footed_Butterflies)
Info This butterfly from Nepal exhibits seasonal polyphenism. Throughout the year the peacock butterfly basks with its wings open – see a wet season FP from Jee. The bright orange colour and the large eyespots keep vertebrate predators away. The big change comes when it rests with its wings closed. In the wet season, when everything is green, it has bright eyespots on the underside too. But a butterfly born in the dry season need a different camoflage. There’s less food around and it must rest more. The forewings of the dry season form are fulcate (see nom) and the hindwing has a ‘tail’. There are no eyespots. It becomes an imitation of a dry leaf when it roosts upside down or enters aestivation. More reading All by Charlesjsharp -- Charles (talk) 17:36, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Charles (talk) 17:36, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Unsharp in the middle and part of the right side. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:35, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Ikan. Daniel Case (talk) 03:56, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I withdraw my nomination Yes, you're right. Charles (talk) 11:37, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]