Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) nitidula (Gyllenhal 1810), 1989

Enushchenko, Ilya V., 2019, Review of the subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz 1856 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Homalotini) of Middle Asia, with emphasis on the fauna of Kazakhstan, Zootaxa 4613 (2), pp. 379-397 : 392

[ Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) nitidula (Gyllenhal 1810) ]

Gyrophaena nitidula: Kashcheev et al. 1989: 36 ; Kashcheev 2001a: 150; Kashcheev & Ishkov 2001a: 101, 2001b: 123

Remarks. This species was recorded from south-eastern Kazakhstan, northern Tian-Shan, Ketmen, and Dzhungarian mountain ridges by Kashcheev et al. (1989), Trans-Ili Alatau (Chon-Kemina, Turganskiy, Zhinishke Canions) and Kungey Alatau (Chilik River) by Kashcheev (2001a), and Aksu-Dzhabagly Nature Reserve by Kashcheev & Ishkov (2001a, 2001b). These records are based on misidentification. Gyrophaena nitidula is a common European species. Examined records of G. nitidula from Siberia belong to E. angusticollis (see above and Enuschenko & Shavrin 2011). It is possible that G. nitidula was confused with the closely related G. pseudonitidula Semenov, 2015 , which is widely distributed from the European part of Russia (Chuvash Republic) to the Russian Far East ( Semenov et al. 2015).