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 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.[2] In 2013, he named Ctenus monaghani after actor Dominic Monaghan, to honor his work in the documentary series Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan.[3]

In 2020, Jäger named a new genus and species of huntsman spiders from Madagascar after Greta Thunberg. The new spider is named Thunberga greta.[4]

References
  1. "Arachnology Staff". Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  2. 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.
  3. de Lazaro, Enrico (2013-08-01). "New Spider from Laos Named after Actor Dominic Monaghan". Sci-News.com. Retrieved 2021-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. Staff Writer (2020-06-12). "New spider species named after Greta". France 24.


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