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.[1]
He named the spider Heteropoda davidbowie in honour of the singer David Bowie.[2]
In June 2020, Jäger named a new new genus of huntsman spiders from Madagascar after Greta Thunberg. The new spider is named Thunberga greta.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Arachnology Staff". Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
- ^ Jäger, P. (2008). "Revision of the huntsman spider genus Heteropoda Latreille 1804: species with exceptional male palpal conformations from southeast Asia and Australia (Arachnida, Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 88: 239–310.
- ^ Staff Writer (2020-06-12). "New spider species named after Greta". France 24.
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