Species Dovea tectorum

For Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–1879), Prussian meteorologist and physicist, a professor at the University of Königsberg, director of the Prussian Meteorological Institute. He was an associate professor at the University of Königsberg, an associate professor at the University of Berlin, and then a full professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. He was also the director of the Prussian Meteorological Institute and studied the effect of climate on the growth of plants. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences; and has a crater on the moon named after him.