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Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine: “I got my own tarantula named after me!”

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An American arachnologist has named a newly discovered species of tarantula after Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine.

An American arachnologist has named a newly discovered species of tarantula after Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine.

Discovered by Brent E. Hendrixson, Ph.D in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona, the large arachnid belonging to the Theraphosidae family of spiders has been christened 'Aphonopelma Davemustainei'.

Mustaine was so stoked when he found out about the news that he took to both Facebook and Twitter to post pictures of the hairy critters.

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