They found even more?! Those carnivorous caterpillars go hard.
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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this is what they will take from us
"We've only collected 62 of them over 20 years,"
So it hasn't been recently discovered? Or is it that type of thing where it's been discovered in a research collection or something
Sound like a bit of the latter, or it has never been previously characterized as a unique species until now.
quick destroy their ecosystem for corporate profit
that live in one 5 mile area in Oahu
cool, so it can be named in the Hawaiian language right? So that its name will reflect its native habitat?
are working on publishing a species description that will include a formal scientific (Latin) name
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
There's nothing to stop it having a species name using an Indigenous word
honkeys
nevermind hawaiian OR latin, the caterpillar deserves a proper american name, like SpiderMKULTRA Badburger