''Dossenus'' is a genus of spiders in the family

Trechaleidae Trechaleidae (''tre-kah-LEE-ih-dee'') is a family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890, and includes about 140 described species in 16 genera. They all live in Central America, Central and South America e ...

. It was first described in 1898 by Simon. , it contains 3 species.

Etymology

Dossenus was a monster from Roman theatre. It was a hybrid of human and animal and was portrayed as one who would eat and chomp its way through anything. The name Dossenus roughly translates to "ever-chomping" in English.

References

Trechaleidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Central America Spiders of South America {{Trechaleidae-stub