What insect is on Ace of Swords from Tarot of the Secret Forest?

[kimtsan]

I can't tell if it's a moth, some kind of wasp, or a butterfly...ideas?

Here is a picture of it:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P739wL-lrq8/R3Jj7ZOchyI/AAAAAAAAAtM/V9jWBkvicpI/s320/001.jpg

 

[Astraea]

Looks like a moth to me (thicker body than a butterfly's) - it looks like a sphinx moth, except that it's missing the large circle pattern on a sphinx moth's wings.

 

[Nemia]

The pais moldaenkei looks a bit like it.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...daenkei=Brephos_moldaenkei_(Dewitz,_1881).JPG

From an old German book, Afrikanische Nachtschmetterlinge:

https://archive.org/stream/afrikanischenach00dewi#page/n37/mode/2up

https://archive.org/stream/afrikanischenach00dewi#page/n35/mode/2up

Nice old engravings of all kinds of night butterflies.

 

[kimtsan]

Thanks guys!! Going to research into the moth and its symbolism...