Losdolobus

Losdolobus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Superfamily:	Dysderoidea
Family:	Orsolobidae
Genus:	Losdolobus Platnick and Brescovit, 1994

Losdolobus is a genus of six-eyed spiders found in Brazil belonging to the family Orsolobidae.

Species

Source: The World Spider Catalog 12.0:

• Losdolobus opytapora Brescovit, Bertoncello & Ott, 2004
• Losdolobus parana Platnick & Brescovit, 1994
• Losdolobus xaruanus Lise & Almeida, 2006
• Losdolobus ybypora Brescovit, Ott & Lise, 2004

Curiosity

This genus name constitutes a curiosity: the arachnologists Platnick and Brescovit wanted to pay tribute to a couple of Argentine guys who helped them (Pablo Goloboff and Martín Ramírez) and asked them to suggest a name, and they proposed "losdolobus," which loosely translates as "the morons" or "the good-for-nothings". ("Los" is the Spanish plural for "the" and "dolobus" is an anagram for "boludos" a word in "lunfardo", the Buenos Aires slang or argot, that barely means "morons"; this kind of anagram is common in lunfardo, which is called "alvesre"; "Alvesre" is itself an anagram of "al revés", which in English means "other way around", "upside down", or "backwards".)

Bibliography

• Forster, R.R, Platnick, N.I. (1985): A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea. Bulletin of the AMNH 181 PDF (147Mb!) Abstract
• Griswold, C.E., Platnick, N.I. (1987): On the first African spiders of the family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea). American Museum novitates 2892. (PDF 5Mb) Abstract (Afrolobus, Azanialobus)
• Platnick, N.I., Brescovit, A.D. (1994): A new genus of the spider family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea) from Brazil. American Museum novitates 3112 (PDF) (Abstract) (Losdolobus)

External links

• "Two new species of Brazilian spiders" (PDF). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. Retrieved 13 Dec 2012.