Depiction of the anthropod insect or insecta known as Death's Head Moth or Death's-head Hawkmoth because of the skull like pattern on the upper thorax of the insects body.Scientific name is Acherontia Lachesis or Acherontia Styx or Acherontia Lachesis.Well known for its imagery used for the the film Silence Of the Lambs. Entomology Endopterygota Insecta Lepidoptera Butterfly Metamorphosis Nocturnal Neoptera