Dibolia dekkersi, Rzebik-Kowalska, Barbara & Rekovets, Leonid I., 2016

Rzebik-Kowalska, Barbara & Rekovets, Leonid I., 2016, New data on Eulipotyphla (Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene to the Middle Pleistocene of Ukraine, Palaeontologia Electronica 12 (1), pp. 1-31 : 6

Genus RUEMKELIA Rzebik-Kowalska and Pawłowski, 1994

Nomenclatural Comment. The genus Dibolia was established by Latreille (1829) for a leaf beetle. In 1985 C.G. Rümke introduced the generic name Dibolia for Desmaninae moles and indicated D. dekkersi n. sp. as the type species. Rzebik-Kowalska and Pawłowski (1994), after contacting C.G. Rümke, proposed the new name to replace the junior homonym. However, some authors (e.g., Hutterer, 1995) are of the opinion that Archaeodesmana Topachevsky and Pashkov, 1983 is available as a replacement name for Dibolia Rümke, 1985 . As the Archaeodesmana type species, Desmana pontica Schreuder, 1940 may not be congeneric with “ Dibolia ” dekkersi , we prefer to use the name Ruemkelia until a revision of the systematics of Desmaninae is done.