Pseudoxyomus armaticeps ( PÉRINGUEY, 1901 ) DellacaSa & DellacaSa, 2002

DellacaSa, M. & DellacaSa, G., 2002, Systematic Redefinition Of Taxa Belonging To The Genera Ahermodontus Báguena, 1930 And Ammoecius Mulsant, 1842, With Description Of The New Genus Vladimirellus (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48 (4), pp. 269-316 : 271

Pseudoxyomus armaticeps ( PÉRINGUEY, 1901) , comb. n.

Aphodius (Ammoecius) armaticeps PÉRINGUEY, 1901: 410 .

Type locality: “Dunb.” [ Dunbrody , near Uitenhage, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.] Type depository: South African Museum, Cape Town .

Remarks – Authors dealing with this taxon ( SCHMIDT 1922: 71, PETROVITZ 1964:188, ENDRŐDI 1978:179, ENDRŐDI & RAKOVIČ 1981:42)havealwaysconsidered it to belong in Ammoecius MULSANT. The type specimen (designated “ neotype ” by ENDRŐDI, in litteris) bears the locality label mentioned above. Thus, it was not from the type locality recorded by PÉRINGUEY in the original description (i. e. “Prince Albert, Cape Province “). A study of this “ neotype ”, at present the sole available specimen, allows us to place A. armaticeps into the genus Pseudoxyomus .