THE LUPARI

One of the few good things to come out of this last season of ‘Doctor Who’ (“Flux”) was the introduction of the Lupari, a sentient canine race who, for some ancient reason, was responsible for Mankind.  Each individual Lupar(?) served as a guardian for a specific human on Earth; sort of like doggie guardian angels.

From the Tardis Data Core Wiki:
The Lupari, singular Lupar, were a humanoid race that resembled Earth dogs. They were warriors with a great sense of honour.

They were species-bonded with humanity, meaning each human had a Lupar tasked to protect them. On Halloween 2021, seven billion Lupari ships approached Earth to protect it from the Flux, (TV: The Halloween Apocalypse) creating an event the humans dubbed the "Three Minute Eclipse."

However, they unknowingly allowed the Sontarans, who came to Earth before the shield took effect, to take over the Earth and blamed fellow Lupar Karvanista for proposing the idea, however he blowed all Sontaran ships and solved the problem (TV: War of the Sontarans), they continued to protect humanity from the Flux and its consequences until the Sontarans attacked Earth again and attacked and threw all the Lupari into space, appropriating the shield for themselves and leaving Karvanista as the last surviving member of the Lupari. (TV: The Vanquishers)

I don’t know how they accomplished this from the distance of space, and why haven’t they ever stepped in to prevent murders or casualties during war or traffic accidents?  Where were they during the Holocaust? The collapse of the World Trade Center?  That recent tornado event which swept through six states?

What happens when their human charges do die?  Do they get reassigned to a new human?

At any rate, I was curious about their species’ name, and if – behind the scenes – there was a reason why it was chosen.

This is what I found:

lupārī
present active infinitive of lupor

lupārī
(in earlier Latin) genitive singular of lupārius

vocative singular of lupārius

lupārius m (genitive lupāriī or lupārī); second declension

(Classical Latin) a wolf-hunter
(Medieval Latin) a wolfhound

Lupor
From lupa (“she-wolf”), in the sense of prostitute.
lupor (present infinitive lupārī, perfect active lupātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
I associate with prostitutes

Lupa
The feminine version of lupus. The sense “prostitute” is either a comparison of the prostitutes' predation on men to the wolf's rapacity, as also in Isidore's (often fanciful) opinion, or a reference to the she-wolf's uncleanliness and promiscuity (often culturally conflated), paralleled in English bitch.

I guess that serves as a philological in-joke.