Manduca

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Manduca
Five-spotted HawkmothManduca quinquemaculataCaterpillar: Tomato hornworm
Five-spotted Hawkmoth
Manduca quinquemaculata
Caterpillar: Tomato hornworm
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Macrolepidoptera
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Family: Sphingidae
Subfamily: Sphinginae
Genus: Manduca
Species

About 70, see text

Manduca is a moth genus of the Sphingidae (hawkmoth) family. The Carolina Sphinx (Manduca sexta) is often used in biological research.

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