Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi is a species of spider in the family Euctenizidae,[1] described in 2007 by East Carolina University professor of biology Jason E. Bond and Norman I. Platnick, curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

[2] Bond & Platnick described the male holotype and female paratype, which were collected in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 1998.

[citation needed] While specimens have been collected repeatedly since 1940, it was only in 2007 that they were recognized as a new species.

[2] He co-wrote a paper revising the genus with Norman I. Platnick, describing this and several other new species.

[3] Bond opted to name the spider after his favorite musician,[4] Neil Young, whose music and activism on peace and justice he appreciates.