Systematic Redefinition Of Taxa Belonging To The Genera Ahermodontus Báguena, 1930 And Ammoecius Mulsant, 1842, With Description Of The New Genus Vladimirellus (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae) Author DellacaSa, M. Author DellacaSa, G. text Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 2002 2003-02-28 48 4 269 316 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.12587419 2064-2474 12587419 Ammoecius brevis ERICHSON , 1848 ( Figs 45–48 , 81 ) Ammoecius brevis ERICHSON , 1848: 907 ; HAROLD 1871: 11 . Aphodius (Ammoecius) brevis : REITTER 1892: 184 ; d’ ORBIGNY 1896: 207 ; SCHMIDT 1913: 125 ; SCHMIDT 1922: 68 ; BALTHASAR 1964: 79 ; BARAUD 1971: 68 ; DELLACASA M. 1988: 68. Type locality: “ Im mittleren und südlichen Deutschland”. [ Germany .] Type depository: Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität , Berlin . Description – Length 3.5–4.5 mm . Short, oval, strongly convex, shiny, glabrous ( Fig. 81 ). Black, clypeal margin faintly brown-reddish; legs piceous with brown-reddish tarsi; antennal club testaceous. Head with cupuliform epistoma finely irregularly microreticulate, thus sericeous, and imperceptibly punctured on disc; punctation laterally somewhat more distinct, irregularly granulose in front of feebly curved anterior transverse carina; clypeus angulately sinuate at middle, obtusely angulate at sides, distinctly bordered, border feebly upturned; genae obtuse, shortly ciliate, protruding more than eyes; frontal suture finely impressed; frons distinctly, finely, and sparsely punctured; epipharynx: Fig. 45 ; apex of corypha: Fig. 46 . Pronotum transverse, somewhat narrower anteriorly, strongly convex, doubly punctured; large punctures deep, irregularly sparse, absent anteriorly on disc, denser on sides, mixed with much smaller, regularly scattered punctures; sides feebly rounded, thinly bordered, faintly inwardly sinuate before the obtusely rounded hind angles; base distinctly bisinuate, bordered. Scutellum regularly triangular, finely punctured at base. Elytra short, strongly convex, backwardly broadened and with epipleural carina subdenticulate at shoulder, deeply striate; striae with large and coarse punctures, strongly crenulate; interstices convex, almost imperceptibly punctured. Hind tibiae with superior apical spur longer than first tarsal segment; latter as long as following three combined. Male: pronotum relatively more transverse, less convex and with large punctures more sparse; middle tibiae with inferior apical spur very short and obliquely truncate apically; metasternalplatefeeblyconcave;aedeagus: Figs47–48 .Female:pronotumrelativelylesstransverse, more convex and with large punctures more densely arranged; middle tibiae with inferior apical spur more elongate and regularly acuminate apically; metasternal plate flat. Distribution: Widely distributed in Europe (northwards up to Sweden , in south from Spain to Georgia, but absent in southern Italy , Corsica , Sardinia, Sicily, Greece and European Turkey ). In Asia,recordedfromTurkmenistan,MongoliaandSiberia(Irkutskregion),butabsentinAsiaMinor.