The Death's Head has entered modern mythology in its role as an emblem of perverted evil in the book and film of The Silence of the Lambs.
The species in Thomas Harris's book is the related Malaysian A. styx. The distinctive trademark of the serial murderer is a hawk moth pupa placed in the mouth of his female victims, whom he later skins. Although the pupa is identified by a museum curator in the film as that of the Death's Head, this is clearly a misidentification: the pupa has a long, jug-handled proboscis, whereas that of the Death's Head is short and stout.
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