Rank Genus | Order Spider | |
Similar Pachygnatha zappa, Orsolobidae, Bambiraptor | ||
Losdolobus is a genus of six-eyed spiders found in Brazil belonging to the family Orsolobidae.
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Source: The World Spider Catalog 12.0:
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".)