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: --Hoziron 05:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 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.
 * By Googling for "Hebrew nun", I found a database of Hebrew letterforms at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. 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. 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.