On parle dans la littérature récente d'Alcidodes karelinii.
Dans la publi Diagnosis and distribution of Alcidodes karelinii (Boheman, 1844): a new record for Turkey (Curculionidae: Molytinae: Mecysolobini) - Gültekin & al 2019, on trouve ceci :
The species name karelinii is currently under Alcidodes (Alonso-Zaragaza et al. 2017), but has been placed in Merus Gistel 1857 (Mukhtarova et al. 2013), Sternuchopsis Heller, 1918 (Korotyaev 2015, Legalov et al. 2015) or Alcidodes (Ahmed et al. 2014).