Talk:Setaceous Hebrew Character
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Some discussion about how this species acquired its extremely odd name would be appreciated. -Toptomcat 01:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- Setaceous means "hairy" (although I've never really noticed either adult or larva being particularly hairy) and the Hebrew character bit refers to the pattern on the wing resembling a Hebrew letter (I reckon this is a bit tenuous too). It's a great name though Richard Barlow 13:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- PS, the setaceous bit serves mainly to distinguish the species from the similarly marked but not particularly closely related Hebrew Character. Richard Barlow 13:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Evidence for a marked resemblance between the Hebrew letter nun and the moth's marking:
- Look at the second letter from the right in the fifth word from the right in Monotype's samples of several faces, particularly Peninim. That is a very common book face. [1]
- By Googling for "Hebrew nun", I found a database of Hebrew letterforms at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.[2] Several of its high-resolution historical examples of the letter nun (fourth from left in each sample) are practically identical with the moth's marking. [3] For example, the one on the fourth line is from a Passover Haggadah from Prague dated 1527. I haven't explored the copyright issue, but perhaps we could present that image in this article.
--Hoziron 05:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
