Hawaii Nei – “Natural History of Hawaii”
Scientific Name: Eupithecia spp.
Family Geometridae (Inchworms), Eupithecia spp.
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Hawaiian Name: Ilio holo ikauaua
Scientific Name: Monachus schauinslandi
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Scientific Name: Vanessa tameamea
Distribution: Endemic to Hawaiian islands, found mainly in upland woodlands. The Kamehameha Butterfly was the first of the Lepidoptera to be described in the Hawaiian Islands and named in the early 1800s for Kamehameha I.
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Scientific Name: Herpestes 'auropunctatus
History: Introduced in 1883 from Jamaica (originally from India), to control rat populations in the sugar cane fields. However, because the mongoose is diurnal and the rat primarily nocturnal, they were not an effective bio-control.
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