Peter Jäger

Peter Jäger is a German arachnologist, and current Head of Arachnology at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.

He has named several spiders after celebrities; in 2008, he named ''Heteropoda davidbowie'' after British singer David Bowie, and ''Heteropoda ninahagen'' after German singer Nina Hagen. In 2012, he disovered a new species in a cave in Laos, known colloquially at the time as the Giant Laotian harvestman. In 2013, he named ''Ctenus monaghani'' (currently in the genus ''Bowie'') after actor Dominic Monaghan, to honor his work in the documentary series ''Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan''.

In 2020, Jäger named a new genus and species of huntsman spiders from Madagascar after Greta Thunberg. The new spider is named ''Thunberga greta''.

In 2022, he named 54 species of huntsman spiders from across Asia under the new genus ''Bowie'' in commemoration of the musician David Bowie 75th's birthday, the second time the musician's name was honored. Provided by Wikipedia