Genus Tachytrechus Haliday

Ammobates Stannius, 1831: 33 .

Type species: Ammobates notatus Stannius (subsequent designation by Rondani, 1856: 143). Preoccupied by Ammobates Latreille, 1809 .

Tachytrechus Haliday, 1851: 173 . Type species: Ammobates notatus Stannius, automatic. Replacement name for Ammobates Stannius, 1831 .

Six genera have been synonymized with Tachytrechus . The complete list of synonyms can be checked in Brooks (2005).