hawk moth
Any of a family, Sphingidae, of moths with thick bodies and narrow wings. Some 1,000 species are distributed throughout the world, but they are mainly tropical. The large hawk-moth larva usually has a ‘horn’ at the end of its body – for example, the bright-green tomato hornworm Protoparcequinquemaculata.
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