Moth is a piece of digital artwork by Kim Sy Ok which was uploaded on February 11th, 2013.
Title
Moth
Artist
Kim Sy Ok
Medium
Digital Art
Description
A moth is an insect related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Most of this order are moths; there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth (nearly ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are crepuscular and diurnal species.
Moths are not easily differentiated from butterflies. Sometimes the name "Heterocera" is used for moths while the term "Rhopalocera" is used for butterflies to formalize the popular distinction; these, however, have no taxonomic validity. Many attempts have been made to subdivide the Lepidoptera into groups such as the Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Frenatae and Jugatae, or Monotrysia and Ditrysia. Failure of these names to persist in modern classifications is because none of them represents a pair of monophyletic groups. The reality is that butterflies are a small group that arose from within the "moths" (being considered as part of Ditrysia of the Neolepidoptera). There is thus no way to group all of the remaining taxa in a monophyletic group, as it will always exclude that one descendant lineage. Also, both their larvae are similar to coleoptera larvae (beetle).
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Uploaded
February 11th, 2013
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Comments (6)
Jason Politte
Superb - this truly does have the feel of a moth or butterfly fluttering its wings. Lovely! V
Kim Sy Ok replied:
Thank you so much Jason and thank you for the vote-happy you like it, thank you :)!
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