What is "canidia"

The gens Canidia was a Roman family of the late Republic. It is best known from a single individual, Publius Canidius Crassus, consul suffectus in 40 B.C., and the chief general of Marcus Antonius. Canidia was also a sobriquet bestowed upon Gratidia, a Neapolitan perfumer (according to Pomponius Porphyrion) who had deserted the poet Horace. He primarily describes her in his fifth and seventeenth epodes, and the eighth satire of his first book of Satires; she is mentioned in passing at Epode 5, Satire 2.1 and Satire 2.8. The Palinodia in the sixteenth ode of the first book may potentially refer to Canidia, though she is not specifically named.

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

• Canidia canescens (Dillon, 1955)
• Canidia chemsaki Wappes & Lingafelter, 2005
• Canidia cincticornis Thomson, 1857
• Canidia giesberti Wappes & Lingafelter, 2005
• Canidia mexicana Thomson, 1860
• Canidia ochreostictica (Dillon, 1956)
• Canidia spinicornis (Bates, 1881)
• Canidia turnbowi Wappes & Lingafelter, 2005