Megaletor was a son of King Munichus and Lelante and a prince of the Molossians. He was a descendant of both Aphrodite and Zeus.
History[]
He was the brother of Philaeus, Alcander and Hyperippe. One day, raiders attacked them in the fields; the family ran off to their house and began to throw various objects at them in self-defense, whereupon the offenders set fire to the house. Zeus would not let his favorites die such a miserable death and changed them each into birds: Munichus into a buzzard, Lelante into a green woodpecker, Alcander into a wren, Hyperippe into a loon, Philaeus into a "dog-bird" and Megaletor into an "ichneumon".