The blind cave beetle shares its genus with 41 other species and 95 different subspecies.

[2] Members of its subfamily (Trechinae) are, like most Carabidae, predatory, so the adults and larvae of A. hitleri are presumed to be predators on smaller cave inhabitants.

The scientific name of the beetle comes from an Austrian collector, Oskar Scheibel, who was sold a specimen of a then-undocumented species in 1933.

Its species name was made a dedication to Adolf Hitler, who had recently become Chancellor of Germany.

"[6] One potential solution suggested by the vice-president of the ICZN, Patrice Bouchard, was to "change the vernacular name",[6] and in September 2023, a new vernacular name, Slovenian blind cave beetle, was proposed.