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Original - A Painted Arachnis (Arachnis picta) found near Crestone, Colorado
Edit1 - remove color balance shift and smooth/lift background gradient by Mfield
Reason
A high detail macro, illustrating the subject clearly. A small part of the foreleg is out of focus, but the rest of the body is visible in high detail, as are the other two legs.
Articles this image appears in
Arachnis, Lepidoptera
Creator
Calibas
It's now in Lepidoptera, along with another much needed labeled illustration. I'm divided over which better illustrates scales however. 'Lepidoptera wing' works better as a thumb. Mostlyharmless (talk) 01:36, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Arachnis_picta_edit1.jpg MER-C 07:52, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]