Stylodipus G. M. Allen 1925

Stylodipus G. M. Allen 1925, Am. Mus . Novit., 161: 4.

Type Species: Stylodipus andrewsi Allen 1925

Synonyms: Halticus Brandt 1844 .

Species and subspecies: 3 species:

Species Stylodipus andrewsi Allen 1925

Species Stylodipus sungorus Sokolov and Shenbrot 1987

Species Stylodipus telum (Lichtenstein 1823)

Discussion: Scirtopoda is often incorrectly used for this genus, but is a junior synonym of Jaculus (Corbet, 1978 c:153; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:536). Shenbrot et al. (1995) included the extinct Scirtodipus (late Miocene of Kazakhstan) as a synonym, but Zazhigin and Lopatin (2001) and McKenna and Bell (1997) listed it as a separate genus in Dipodinae . Zazhigin and Lopatin (2001) also regard Scirtodipus as ancestral to Stylodipus, which is represented by Pleistocene samples ( S. telum) and early Pliocene material from Mongolia ( S. iderensis and S. perfectus). Generic review provided by Shenbrot et al. (1995).