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'Tomato hornworm' is the common name for 'Manduca quinquemaculata'. The term includes the insect's stages as a caterpillar and as the five-spotted hawkmoth. In fact, the term 'quinquemaculata' refers to the five characteristic spots on the moth's abdomen. It's a way of differentiating it from the otherwise almost identical adult stage of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta.

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