Synonymy

• Eulissus spegazzinii Bernhauer, 1915: 299 [original combination]
  • Afrus spegazzinii — Janák & Bordoni, 2015: 10

Primary references

• Bernhauer, M. 1915. Neue Staphyliniden des tropischen Afrika. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 65: 287–321. [original description: p. 299]

• Janák, J. & Bordoni, A. 2015. Revision of the genus Thyreocephalus and description of Afrus gen. nov. of Africa south of the Sahara (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Zootaxa 4038(1): 1–94. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4038.1.1 . Preview (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77557-825-3 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-826-0 (Online edition) Reference page.  [comb. nov., lectotype, material, redescription, distribution: p. 10]

Additional references

• Bordoni, A. 2016. Revision of the Afrotropical Xantholinini (Coleoptera Staphylinidae). Biodiversity journal 7(4): 389–894. PDF Reference page.  [material, description, distribution: p. 514, figs. 1676, 1679–1681]

• Herman, L.H. 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. VI. Staphylinine group (Part 3). Staphylininae: Staphylinini (Quediina, Staphylinina, Tanygnathinina, Xanthopygina), Xantholinini. Staphylinidae incertae sedis. Fossils, Protactinae†. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 3021–3840. Handle Reference page.  [catalog: p. 3767]