''Spintharus leonardodicaprioi'' is a species of
theridiid
Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. This diverse, globally distributed family includes over 3,000 sp ...
spider.
It is found in the Dominican Republic and was named after the actor
Leonardo DiCaprio for his environmental activism.
It was named alongside several other ''
Spintharus
The spider genus ''Spintharus'' occurs from the northeastern United States to Brazil. Nicholas Marcellus Hentz circumscribed the genus in 1850, initially as a monospecific genus containing his newly described species ''S. flavidus''.
It is ver ...
'' species whose
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
s honored celebrities,
and it received media coverage from around the world due to its name.
See also
*
List of organisms named after famous people (born 1950–present)
* ''
Grouvellinus leonardodicaprioi'', a beetle named after DiCaprio
References
External links
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{{Leonardo DiCaprio
Spiders described in 2018
Arthropods of the Dominican Republic
Theridiidae
Leonardo DiCaprio
Spiders of the Caribbean