Ammalaptus Gistel, 1856

Jelínek, Josef & Audisio, Paolo, 2009, The Kateretidae, Nitidulidae and Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) described by Gistel (1856, 1857): new synonymies and type designations, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 225-238 : 227

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scientific name	Ammalaptus Gistel, 1856
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Ammalaptus Gistel, 1856: 362 . Type species: Cercus rufilabris Latreille, 1807 [= Kateretes rufilabris (Latreille, 1807) ], by subsequent designation here.

GISTEL (1856: 398) gave Brachypterus Kugelann, 1794 View in CoL as a synonym of Ammalaptus , but the four originally included species are an array of species currently classified in three modern kateretid genera. These erroneous placements reflect the confused generic classification of kateretids in the middle of the 19th century:

Ammalaptus scutellatus Pan. [zer] [ Scaphidium scutellatum Panzer, 1793 = Brachypterolus pulicarius ( Linnaeus, 1758) ];

Ammalaptus urticae Ku. [gelann] [ Brachypterus urticae Fabricius, 1792 ];

Ammalaptus bipustulatus [sine auct.] [ Dermestes bipustulatus Paykull, 1798 = Kateretes pusillus ( Thunberg, 1794) ];

Ammalaptus rufilabris Lat. [reille] [ Kateretes rufilabris (Latreille, 1807) ].

The name Ammalaptus is the oldest available name for Brachypterolus Grouvelle, 1913 , but it has not been used for 150 years. To support the stability of nomenclature, we prefer to designate Cercus rufilabris Latreille, 1807 as the type species of Ammalaptus Gistel, 1856 , which thus becomes a junior synonym of Kateretes Herbst, 1793 .