The trapdoor spider was named in honor of Colbert in 2008. Credit: Jason Bond / UC Davis

Stephen Colbert’s tenure as host of The Late Show sadly ended when CBS cancelled the historic series in May, but his 11-season run was only possible thanks to a prior gig. From 2005 to 2014, former The Daily Show alum played a larger-than-life, egotistical caricature of himself for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report . In 2008, a team of entomologists even named newly discovered species of trapdoor spider after him: Aptostichus stephencolberti . And yes, the “t” in “ stephencolberti ” is silent.

It’s taken nearly 20 years, but researchers finally sequenced the arachnid’s entire genome. As they detailed in a study recently published in the Journal of Heredity , A. stephencolberti also boasts a biological detail that would make Colbert’s Comedy Central character proud.…