Aliboron

Aliboron
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Cerambycidae
Tribe:	Agapanthiini
Genus:	Aliboron

Aliboron is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:^[1]

Aliboron antennatum J. Thomson, 1864
Aliboron bukidnoni Vives, 2005
Aliboron granulatum Breuning, 1966
Aliboron laosense Breuning, 1968
Aliboron wongi Hüdepohl, 1987

Etymology

The genus was named by James Thomson in 1864;^[1] the type species is Aliboron antennatum.

The name Aliboron is that of the donkey in La Fontaine's fable "The thieves and the ass" (Les voleurs et l’âne, I.13); from La Fontaine the word aliboron entered French as a generic name for a donkey (compare Reynard). The name "Maistre Aliboron" for an ass has been suggested to originate from:

black hellebore, used in medicines, thus perhaps for panaceas, and thus perhaps for (quack) doctors;^[2]^[3]
Al-Biruni (973–1048), a Persian philosopher;^[3]
the Latin phrase magister aliborum, "master of alibis."

In 1910, Roland Dorgelès tied a paintbrush to a donkey's tail and exhibited the resulting artwork at the Société des Artistes Indépendants under the name Boronali (an anagram of "Aliboron").

References

^ ^a ^b "Aliboron (J. Thomson, 1864)". BioLib.cz. Retrieved 2024-04-26.
^ René Droin (1993). "aliboron". Le livre des jolis mots (PDF) (in French). Paris: Belfond. p. 24. ISBN 2-7144-2986-6. Retrieved 2024-04-26.
^ ^a ^b "Aliboron". Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-26.

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[BioLib-1] "Aliboron (J. Thomson, 1864)". BioLib.cz. Retrieved 2024-04-26.

[Droin1993-2] René Droin (1993). "aliboron". Le livre des jolis mots (PDF) (in French). Paris: Belfond. p. 24. ISBN 2-7144-2986-6. Retrieved 2024-04-26.

[CNRTL-3] "Aliboron". Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-26.

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