Roland Piquepaille, (whoever he is) says "According to the strict rules established by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, the second word defining a new species must end in 'i' if it's named after a person. So the researcher didn't break the naming scheme. It also was the case in 2005 when Cornell University named several beetles after Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld...

...The Agathidium bushi, the Agathidium rumsfeldi and the Agathidium cheneyi."