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”