"Taiwan may have 8000 moth species, but so far only 5000 have been named." Professor Yang Ping-shih of NTU's Department of Entomology, who introduced Yen Sheng-hung to the world of insects, says there are still thousands of moths in Taiwan which have not yet been described or named. "At the moment it is nothing unusual for researchers to publish descriptions of ten to 20 new species a year."
「台灣蛾類可能有八千種，已命名的有五千種」，帶著顏聖紘認識昆蟲世界的台大昆蟲系教授楊平世說，台灣還有成千種的蛾類在自然裡未被分類、訂名，「目前學界一年發表個一、二十種新種不算什麼。」