Anotylus nitidifrons ( Wollaston, 1871 )

Wang, Lin-Fei & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2020, Taxonomy of Anotylus nitidifrons group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) and five new species from China, Zootaxa 4861 (1), pp. 23-42 : 40-41

7. Anotylus nitidifrons ( Wollaston, 1871)

Wollaston, 1871: 411 ( Oxytelus ; Type locality: England: St. Helena); Wollaston, 1877: 36 ( Oxytelus ; characters; St. Helena); Cameron, 1921: 367, 400 ( Oxytelus ; characters; Singapore); Cameron, 1930: 256 ( Oxytelus ; subgenus Anotylus ; characters; India; Burma); Bernhauer, 1936: 82 ( Oxytelus ; Philippines); Méquignon, 1942: 17 ( Oxytelus ; subgenus Anotylus ; Azores); Fagel, 1956: 273 ( Microxytelus ); Jarrige, 1963: 120 ( Microxytelus ; India); Smetana, 1963: 32 ( Oxytelus ; subgenus Anotylus ; Madeira); Herman, 1970: 419 ( Anotylus ); Abdullah and Qadri, 1970: 121 ( Oxytelus ; characters; West Pakistan); Smetana, 1970: 54 ( Oxytelus ; distributional summary; Azores); Fagel, 1972: 99 ( Microxytelus ; notes; Sainte Helene); Hammond, 1975: 158, 164 ( Anotylus ; notes; characters; Ceylon; China; Japan; India; Laos; Java; Vietnam; Mauritius; Madagascar; Madeira; St. Helena; Hawaii; Palau Islands); Hammond, 1976: 176 ( Anotylus ; notes; adventive species); Herman, 2001: 1373 ( Anotylus ; catalog); Smetana, 2004: 514 ( Anotylus ; catalog); Zheng and Pu, 2004: 372 ( Anotylus ; list); Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 771 ( Anotylus ; catalog).

Syn.: Oxytelus advena Sharp, 1880: 50 ( Type locality: Oahu); Fauvel, 1902: 65 ( Oxytelus ; synonym of nitidifrons ); Sharp, 1908: 543 ( Oxytelus ; Hawaii); Bernhauer and Schubert, 1911: 116 ( Oxytelus ; synonym of nitidifrons ).

Distribution: China ( Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Hong Kong), Japan, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Europe, Africa.