The name Laelaps has these meanings:Laelaps was a
Greek mythological dog who never failed to catch what he was hunting. He was a gift from
Zeus to
Europa. The hound was passed down to King
Minos. Minos had been cursed by his wife; he ejaculated scorpions and spiders that would devour the genitals of those he slept with. Because of this, he called
Procris of
Athens to his aid. When she cured him he gave her Laelaps and a
javelin that never missed its target. Procris's husband decided to use the hound to hunt the
Teumessian fox, a
fox that could never be caught. This was a
paradox, a dog who always caught his prey and a fox that could never be caught. The chase went on for quite a while until
Zeus turned both to stone, perplexed by their contradictory fates.The name Laelaps was also given a
genus of
theropod dinosaur discovered in the
marl pits of
New Jersey (Navesink Formation, early
Maastrichtian). Described by American
paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in
1866, after the mythological dog, the
binomen Laelaps aquilunguis was changed to
Dryptosaurus aquilunguis 11 years later by Cope's rival,
Othniel Charles Marsh, when he learned that the name Laelaps had already been used (see below).Laelaps is a genus of
mites which are
ectoparasites of rodents. The most familiar species is the spiny rat mite Laelaps echidninus, because it is a common parasite of
fancy rats.
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[Greek] A magical dog destined to always catch its prey. Zeus had given it Europa as a gift, and it was later handed down to King Minos and then to Prokris of Athens. Prokris' husband used the dog to catch the Teumessian Fox which was ravishing the countryside of Thebes. This fox, however, was destined never to be caught. Zeus, perplexed by the conflicting fates of the two animals, turned them both to stone
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