Naming-game

It must have been very exciting to live times where the species had no names and be able to contribute to the naming-game, both for the scientific and the common name. Linneaus named no less than 12.000 species of plants and animals in his life, so a part from being very meticulous and organized while creating the modern taxonomy system, he must have had great fantasy and an incredible culture to come up with all those names.
If I now reveal that the moth in the photo is called Phlogophora meticulosa in latin you may think that it is a moth that "shows great attention to details" (Oxford languages), just like Linneaus who named it in the 18th century. But the word meticulous has changed meaning in the course of the years. It "is derived from the Latin word for "fearful" - meticulosus - and ultimately comes from the Latin noun metus, meaning "fear." Although meticulous currently has no "fearful" meanings, it was originally used as a synonym of frightened and timid." (Merriam Webster)
There you have it, the fearful moth, although I must admit that I saw no signs of fear in it while I moved around it to photograph it from all sides. It just slept blissfully on the woody seedhead. But probably it escaped from Linneaus.
You can also call it Angle shades.