Simon Ings

Taxonomy reaches celebrity heights

An Indonesian spider is named after David Bowie — and Donald Trump is honoured by a moth with blond, comb-over scales

David Bowie Spider. Credit: Alamy 
issue 16 May 2020

  • Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes and Even a few Scoundrels

    Stephen B. Heard

    Yale,, pp. 256, £20

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