Synonymy

• Raphirus maritimus J. Sahlberg, 1876: 29
• Quedius tetrastigma Leinberg, 1900: 79
• Quedius pseudoumbrinus Lohse, 1958: 60
• Quedius (Sauridus) cyanescens Mulsant & Rey, 1876: 727 [new synonym in Assing, 2018: 151]
• Quedius bulgaricus Scheerpeltz, 1937: 219 [new synonym in Assing, 2018: 151]
• Quedius cyprusensis Last, 1955: 251 [new synonym in Assing, 2018: 151]
• Quedius freyi Scheerpeltz, 1956: 1102 [new synonym in Assing, 2018: 151]
• Quedius maronitus Coiffait, 1963: 410 [new synonym in Assing, 2018: 151]
• Quedius gueorguievi Coiffait, 1967: 399 [new synonym in Assing, 2018: 151]

Primary references

• Erichson, W.F. 1839. Die Käfer der Mark Brandenburg. Erster Band. Zweite Abtheilung. [pp. 385–740]. F.H. Morin, Berlin, viii + 740 pp. BHL Reference page.  [original description: p. 491]

• Assing, V. 2018. On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some West Palaearctic Quedius species, with a focus on the East Mediterranean and the species allied to Quedius umbrinus and Q. nivicola (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 50(1): 149–182. PDF Reference page.  [syn. nov., lectotype, material, comments: p. 151]

Additional references

• 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. 3287]

• 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. 4B]