Laelaps

The name Laelaps has these maanings;-

In Greek mythology, Laelaps was a legendary 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 contradictary 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 eleven years later by Cope's rival, Othniel Charles Marsh, when he learned that the name Laelaps had already been used for an insect (see below).
Fancy rat#Lice and Mites mentions a species of mite called Laelaps echidninus.Template:Disambig