For Barack Obama, it’s not the first — in 2012, a trapdoor spider was named after him, one among 33 new species listed in ZooKeys by Jason E Bond, a biologist at Auburn University Museum of Natural History. The rest included one named after Angelina Jolie, and one after Bono. Beyond spidersOver the years, nearly a dozen organisms have been named for Obama, including a bird, two fish, a bee, a beetle and an extinct lizard. Current US President Donald Trump has a moth, Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, named after him. The photos of the two trapdoor spiders (Aptostichus) are from an open-access study in ZooKeys, authored by Jason E Bond of Auburn University Museum of Natural History.

Source: Indian Express October 23, 2017 08:48 UTC