Synonymy

• Raphirus fulvicollis Stephens, 1833: 244 [original combination]
• Philonthus picipennis Heer, 1839: 279 [preoccupied]
• Quedius nigricollis W. Kolbe, 1909: 20 [aberration of fulvicollis; Nomen nudum (Articles 1.3.4, 45.5); preoccupied]
• Raphirus pugetanus Casey, 1915: 419
• Quedius raphiroides Hatch, 1957: 219

Primary references

• Stephens, J.F. 1833. Illustrations of British entomology; or, a synopsis of indigenous insects; containing their generic and specific distinctions; with an account of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food, and economy, as far as practicable. 5: 241–304 + pl. 27. London: Baldwin and Cradock. [original description: p. 244]

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. 3159]

• 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. 155, fig. 23]