Primary references

• Fauvel, A. 1875. Faune Gallo-Rhénane ... Catalogue systématique des staphylinides de la Faune Gallo-Rhénane avec l’addition synonymique des espèces européennes, sibériennes, caucasiques et méditerranéennes et descriptions nouvelles. vol. 3, liv. 6: i–xxxviii. Caen: Le Blanc-Hardel. [original description: p. XXXIII]

Additional references

• Assing, V. 2017. On Quedius coloratus Fauvel, 1875 and allied species, with an appendix on Quedius species collected in Greece with subterranean pitfall traps, and a new synonymy (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 49(1): 207–228. PDF Reference page.  [material, comment, redescription: p. 210, figs. 1-4, 15, 21, 23, 28-30, 41-42, 52, 58, map 1]

• 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. 3129]

• Salnitska, M. & Solodovnikov, A. Yu. 2018. Revision of the Quedius fauna of Middle Asia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65(2): 117–159. DOI: 10.3897/dez.65.27033 Reference page.  [material, comments: p. 149, fig. 18]