What is "dryops"

Dryops may refer to:

• Dryops, a genus of beetles in family Dryopidae
• Dryops (crater), a crater on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter (see List of craters on Callisto)

In Greek mythology:

• Dryops, a son of King Priam of Troy
• Dryops (Oeta), a king of Oeta and son of the river-god Spercheus
• Dryops, a son of Apollo by Dia
• Dryops, a companion of Aeneas

In Greek mythology, Dryops was a son of the river god Spercheus and the Danaid Polydora. He reigned in the neighborhood of Mount Oeta and was believed to have given his name to the people Dryopes; the people, original inhabitants of the banks of River Spercheios, retained the name after having transferred to Asine in Peloponnesus.

Dryops had one daughter, Dryope, and also a son Cragaleus.