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==Plant eating insect==

What is the name of this specie ?

https://preview.ibb.co/msEy7H/IMG_5173.jpg --39.46.190.111 (talk) 14:45, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

:It would help to know where this was seen. There are hundreds of varieties of hawkmoth. That could be a hippotion celerio.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 16:01, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

::Lahore, Pakistan on a lemon tree. --39.55.162.205 (talk) 16:24, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

:::Papilio demoleus commonly has citrus plants as hosts, and some of the instars of its larvae look rather like that. Deor (talk) 02:10, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

:[pedantic rage]"specie" is not the singular of "species". Specie means metal coins. [/pedantic rage]"Iapetus (talk) 09:39, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

::The words specie, species and specific all share the same Latin root.[https://www.etymonline.com/word/specie][https://www.etymonline.com/word/species][https://www.etymonline.com/word/specific] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:29, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

:::So do raptor and rapture, but you wouldn't want to mix them up. Iapetus (talk) 15:53, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

::::Yes, as well as rapt, rape and rapid. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:08, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

:::::"Rapid" is from the Latin rapidus, "hasty". "Rapt" is from the Latin rapere, "to seize". 92.19.175.225 (talk) 13:37, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

::::::The word rapidus also comes from rapere.[https://www.etymonline.com/word/rapid] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:52, 13 April 2018 (UTC)