Mallopelmus Straneo 1942

Kavanaugh, David H. & Rainio, Johanna, 2016, Twenty-six New Species of Predaceous Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Carabidae) from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (7), pp. 201-268 : 217

Subgenus Mallopelmus Straneo 1942

Mallopelmus Alluaud 1936 , unavailable

Alluaud (1936) described this taxon as a new genus with several included species, but he failed to designate one of them as type species. This error rendered the name unavailable (ICZN 2000, Article 13.3) until Straneo (1942) designated Mallopelmus dactyleuryoides Alluaud (1936) (the first named species in Alluaud’s (1936) paper) as the type species. Both Straneo (1938) and Jeannel (1948) treated Mallopelmus as a distinct genus. Straneo actually treated Trichinillus as a subgenus of Mallopelmus in his 1942 paper, apparently not realizing at the time that his designation of a type species for Mallopelmus changed the data of availability for that name, as well as its authorship, with the result that Trichinillus became the senior synonym for the genus. Mallopelmus is now considered a subgenus of Trichinillus ( Lorenz 2005) and is precinctive to Madagascar.