Laelaps: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Mesostigmata
- Family
- Laelapidae
- Genus
- Laelaps
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Laelaps
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Laelaps (mythology)
Laelaps (Ancient Greek: Λαῖλαψ, gen.: Λαίλαπος meaning "hurricane" or "furious storm") was a Greek mythological dog that never failed to catch what it was hunting.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Alloparasitus
- Androlaelaps
- Angosomaspis
- Apolaelaps
- Berlesia
- Bisternalis
- Blaberolaelaps
- Chapalaelaps
- Chapalania
- Chelanyssus
- Chirolaelaps
- Coleolaelaps
- Conolaelaps
- Cosmolaelaps
- Cyclothorax
- Dinogamasus
- Echinonyssus
- Ellsworthia
- Euelaelaps
- Gaeolaelaps
- Gigantolaelaps
- Gymnolaelaps
- Holostaspis
- Hunteria
- Hyperlaelaps
- Hypoaspis
- Ichoronyssus
- Jacobsonia
- Julolaelaps
- Laelaps
- Laelaspis
- Leptolaelaps
- Mellitiphis
- Mesolaelaps
- Mungosicola
- Myonyssoides
- Myrmonyssus
- Ololaelaps
- Ondatralaelaps
- Pneumolaelaps
- Pseudoparasitus
- Radfordilaelaps
- Scissuralaelaps
- Steptolaelaps
- Stratiolaelaps
- Trichosurolaelaps
- Tur
Child Taxa
- Laelaps alaskensis
- Laelaps echidnina
- Laelaps echidninus
- Laelaps giganteus
- Laelaps horaki
- Laelaps jettmari
- Laelaps kochi
- Laelaps lamborni
- Laelaps longiventris
- Laelaps lowei
- Laelaps manguinhosi
- Laelaps muricola
- Laelaps nuttalli
- Laelaps parvulus
- Laelaps peregrinus
- Laelaps radovskyi
- Laelaps sedlaceki
- Laelaps simillimus
- Laelaps tillae
- Laelaps transvaalensis
- Laelaps vansomereni











