Luiz Gonzaga Engelberg Lordello, Brazilian helminthologist and plant pathologist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 11 March 1926 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 04 February 2002)
Authored over 150 papers and textbooks
DESCRIBED PLANT DISEASES AND ITS PARASITES
First record of Pratylenchus vulnus on the roots of peach trees in Nematodo nocivo ao pessegueiro. Rev. Agric. 48(2-3):128, 1973
With A.R. Monteiro & O. Suzuki. Nova doença da fruteira do conde causada pelo nematóide Radopholus similis. Rev. Agric. 37:67-71, 1962
With C.P. Costa. A new nematode parasite of coffee roots in Brazil. Rev. Bras. Biol. 21(4):363-6, 1961
Uma doença do feijoeiro causada por nematóides. Rural 41(486):21, 1961
Two nematodes found attacking potato in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 33(2):209-15, 1961
With A.P.L. Zamith. Meloidogyne caffeicola, sp.n., a pest of coffee trees in the State of Paraná, Brazil (1960)
A nematosis of yam in Pernambuco, Brazil, caused by a new species of the genus Scutellonema. Rev. Bras. Biol. 19:35-41, 1959
A note on nematode parasites of red anturium (Anthurium andraeanum Lind.) with a description of Rotylenchus boocki sp.n.. Nematologica 2:273-6, 1957
Two new nematodes found associated with soybean roots. Nematologica 2:19-24, 1957
Sobre um nematódeo do gênero Pratylenchus parasito das raízes de Allium cepa. Rev. Agr. S. Paulo 31(3):181-8, 1956
Meloidogyne inornata, sp.n. a serious pest of soybean in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Rev. Bras. Biol. 16(1):65-70, 1956
With A.P.L. Zamith & O. Boock. Novo nematodeo parasite da batatinha. Bragantia 13(11):141-9, 1954
Nota prévia sobre um nematódeo associado a uma moléstia das folhas do morangueiro. Rev. Agr. S. Paulo 28 (3-4):130-1, 1953
Xiphinema brasiliense, nova espécie de nematóide do Brasil, parasita de Solanum tuberosum L. Bragantia 11(1-3):87-92, 1951
DESCRIBED NEMATODA TAXA
Genera
Brasilaimus 1957 with Zamith
Caryboca 1967
Ibipora 1977 with Monteiro
Metaporcelaimus 1965
Mylodiscoides 1963
Phytorhabditis 1963 with Oliveira
Proleptonchus 1955
Spirotylenchus 1958 with Cesnik
Tubixaba 1980 with Monteiro
Species
About 35 new helminth species
HONORS
Genus Lordellonema Andrassy 1960 (Nematoda)
Rhone-Poulenc Prize, Organization of Tropical American Nematologists (1987) “in recognition for outstanding accomplishments in research and service to the Science of Nematology”