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cool, so it can be named in the Hawaiian language right? So that its name will reflect its native habitat?
There's nothing to stop it having a species name using an Indigenous word, though itll have to fit into the already extremely latin (and ancient greek) heavy family genus etc.
This is a pretty weirdly written pop science article i dont know what it says (LATIN) after scentific. odds are it ends up as something Oestioii tho
there's plenty of plants and animals named after people for example
honkeys
nevermind hawaiian OR latin, the caterpillar deserves a proper american name, like SpiderMKULTRA Badburger