Xantholinus (Calolinus) nicolasi Coiffait, 1972

Assing, Volker, 2007, On the Xantholinini of Turkey and adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), Zootaxa 1474, pp. 1-54 : 22

Xantholinus (Calolinus) nicolasi Coiffait, 1972

Xantholinus (Calolinus) nicolasi Coiffait, 1972: 263 .

Xantholinus (Calolinus) pantokratoris Bordoni, 1975b: 140 ; syn. n.

Type material examined. Holotype: ɗ, "Emin Agha (Epire), Grece / 25.V.62, JL Nicolas / s/g Calolinus Coiff. / Holotype / X. (Calolinus) nicolasi H. Coiffait 1971 / Museum Paris" ( MNHNP).

Additional material examined. GREECE: 5 exs., Thessalia, Lárissa, Dhamásion, 21.–25.IV.1941, leg. Schubert ( NHMW, cAss); 4 exs., "Kyparissia" [locality ambiguous], 5.–10.V.1956, leg. Schubert ( NHMW, cAss); 1 ex., Pelopónnisos, Kalogria, 30.III.1988, leg. Schmidt (cAss).

Comment. The original description of X. nicolasi is based on a single male holotype from Ípiros, Greece. The type series of X. pantokratoris is composed of a male holotype and four female paratypes from "Corfù, M.te Pantokràtor, m 900" ( Bordoni 1975b). An examination of the aedeagus of the holotype of X. nicolasi revealed that it is identical to that depicted of the holotype of X. pantokratoris by Bordoni (1975b); hence the synonymy proposed above. The illustration of the aedeagus of X. nicolasi in Coiffait (1972) is misleading, since it shows the presence of only two large distal spines. The species is widespread in Greece; a recent distribution map (for X. pantokratoris ) is provided by Assing (2006b).