>>46696106Because they were referring to the rareness of the real-world species of beetle by using the names of a rare species in the games (There's only 3 legendary-tier bug types in the game, rest are all easily bred or caught in numbers high enough to not be one-a-file).
>>46696151Anon, the person who named the trilobyte Han Solo said he'd named it after the Han Chinese, yet later admitted it was because he was dared to call something Han Solo. I'm not saying that's not the official line they're using to dance around the usage of the name, I'm just saying Occam's razor says it probably got named as so, because the people naming it wanted to call it after Bulbasaur.
