caterpillar vs Phthorimaea operculella

Phthorimaea operculella vs caterpillar

caterpillar and Phthorimaea operculella both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
caterpillar	Yes	No	No	No
Phthorimaea operculella	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Phthorimaea operculella is a hyponym of caterpillar; that is, Phthorimaea operculella is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than caterpillar:

caterpillar: a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
Phthorimaea operculella: larva of potato moth; mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco

Other hyponyms of caterpillar include tussock caterpillar, cankerworm, inchworm, looper, measuring worm, potato tuberworm, cutworm, army worm, armyworm, Pseudaletia unipuncta, beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, Manduca sexta, tobacco hornworm, tomato worm, Manduca quinquemaculata, potato worm, tomato hornworm, silkworm, giant silkworm, silkworm, wild wilkworm, tent caterpillar, lappet caterpillar, webworm, corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis, bollworm, cabbageworm, Pieris rapae, woolly bear, woolly bear caterpillar.

caterpillar (noun)	Phthorimaea operculella (noun)
a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth	greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm
	larva of potato moth; mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco

Difference between caterpillar and Phthorimaea operculella

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