A scientist who helped identify a new butterfly species said it would be named after Iryna Zarutska to "immortalize" her memory.

Harry Pavulaan, the president and director of the International Lepidoptera Survey, said that he's still emotional when thinking about the stabbing death of the Ukrainian woman, allegedly at the hands of a repeat criminal.

'This will outlast most other tributes because it's a living organism. Her name will be immortalized as a butterfly.'

"When I saw the story break," said Pavulaan, "I'm 70 years old, and I'm still driven to tears."

Pavulaan told ABC News that the butterfly had been first spotted in South Carolina by researcher Ronald Gatrelle in 1985 but that it had not been officially named. Pavulaan himself collected specimens of the insect in 2018. It t

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