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Kamehameha butterfly
The Kamehameha butterfly (''Vanessa tameamea'') is one of the two species of butterfly endemic to Hawaii, the other is ''Udara blackburni''. The Hawaiian name is ''pulelehua''. This is today a catch-all native term for all butterflies; its origin seems to be ''pulelo'' "to float" or "to undulate in the air" + ''lehua'', a ''Metrosideros polymorpha'' flower: an animal that floats through the air, from one ''lehua'' to another. Alternatively, it is called ''lepelepe-o-Hina'' – roughly, "Hina's fringewing" – which is today also used for the introduced Monarch butterfly.
The Kamehameha butterfly was named the state insect of Hawaii in 2009, due to the work of a group of 5th graders from Pearl Ridge Elementary. These 5th graders (Robyn-Ashley Amano, Ryan Asuka, Kristi Kimura, Jennifer Loui, Toshiro Yanai and Jenna Yanke) proposed the butterfly as the state insect to various legislators as a project for G.T. (Gifted & Talented).
==Description==
The caterpillars feed on the leaves of plants in the Urticaceae family, especially those of ''māmaki'' (''Pipturus albidus'') but also ''ōpuhe'' (''Urera'' spp.), ''ākōlea'' (''Boehmeria grandis''), ''olonā'' (''Touchardia latifolia''), and ''maoloa'' (''Neraudia'' spp.).〔 Adults eat the sap of ''koa'' (''Acacia koa'') trees.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
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