Bowie’s spider is quite the looker, a large guy with fuzzy, bright yellow hair.

German spider expert Peter Jäger explained that he named the rare spider Heteropoda davidbowie as a way to use Bowie’s star power to bring attention to the number of endangered spiders, according to the Telegraph.

The Heteropoda davidbowie is only found in parts of Malaysia.

Spiders have not traditionally been listed on lists of endangered animals but Jäger hopes that more spiders threatened with extinction will be protected.

“It is working against time,” he told The Observer. “We are also quickly losing genetic resources that have evolved over more than 300 million years.”

With a 1972 concept album called The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and a 1987 tour called The Glass Spider Tour, Bowie was a natural choice to be picked as a spider namesake. Then again, maybe Jäger is more of a Diamond Dogs kind of a guy who loves Bowie for his glam rock genuis, not just because he namedrops spiders.

Last year spiders were named after Neil Young and Stephen Colbert.

Young’s spider was discovered in Jefferson Country, Ala., by a East Carolina University biologist. It is called the Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi, according to exclaim.ca.

After Colbert complained that Young got a spider named after him, the “Colbert Report” host also received the honor of having his very own spider.

The Aptostichus stephencolberti was discovered along the California coast by the same East Carolina University biologist.

“Guess what, Neil? What goes around, lays eggs around. Because that same biologist, Jason Bond, is naming a spider after me. And all I had to do was shamelessly beg on national television,” Colbert said, according to the New York Daily News.

“Watch out, Neil. When they say my spider eats its young, they are talking about you!”

Click here for the Telegraph article and to check out a picture of Heteropoda davidbowie.

Click here for the exclaim.ca article.

Click here for the New York Daily News article.