Aliboron

Aliboron is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:


 * 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; 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;
 * Al-Biruni (973–1048), a Persian philosopher;
 * 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").