Synonymy

• Scydmaenus puncticollis — Broun, 1880: 146 [original combination]
  • Euconnus (Allomaoria) puncticollis — Franz, 1975: 94 [comb. nov.; Franz (1975) incorrectly attributed the original species name to Stenichnus, instead of Scydmaenus]
  • Sciacharis (Sciacharis) puncticollis — Jałoszyński & Newton, 2017 [list]
• Euconnus nugalis Franz, 1977: 21 [Synonymized by Kuschel, 1990: 76]

Primary references

• Broun, T. 1880. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Part 1. Pp. 1–651. Colonial Museum and Geologcal Survey Department, Wellington. BHL Reference page.  [original description: p. 146]

• Franz, H. 1975. Revision der Scydmaeniden von Australiens, Neuseelands und den benachbarten Inseln. Denkschriften - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 118: 1–312. PDF Reference page.  [comb. nov.: p. 94]

• Kuschel, G. 1990. Beetles in a suburban environment: A New Zealand case study. The identity and status of Coleoptera in the natural and modified habitats of Lynfield, Auckland (1974–1989). DSIR Plant Protection report, 3. 119 pp. ISBN 0-477-02596-X PDF. Reference page.  [syn. nov.: p. 76]

Additional references

• Jałoszyński, P. & Newton, A.F. 2017. Taxonomy of "Euconnus complex". Part XV. Disentangling the Euconnus-Sciacharis knot (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4344(3): 401–433. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4344.3.1 . Reference page.  [list: p. 436]