Synonymy

• Thinobius major Kraatz, 1857: 883 [original combination]
  • Thinobius (Platyderothinophilus) major — Scheerpeltz, 1959: 62
• Thinobius brevicollis Mulsant & Rey, 1870: 114 [=1871: 90]. [synonymized in Fauvel, 1889]
• Thinobius diversicornis Fauvel, 1889: 84, 86 [synonymized in Makranczy, 2014: 15]
• Thinobius longicornis Joy, 1913: 156 [preoccupied]
• Thinobius macroceros Joy, 1913: 275 [new name for Thinobius longicornis Joy, 1913; synonymized in Pope, 1977]
• Thinobius franzi Scheerpeltz, 1947: 269 [new synonym in Schülke & Makranczy, 2011]
• Thinobius konecznii Scheerpeltz, 1958: 51 [synonymized in Lohse, 1987]
• Thinobius sahlbergi Scheerpeltz, 1959: 74 [synonymized in Makranczy, 2014: 15]
• Thinobius tatricus Smetana, 1973: 42 [synonymized in Lohse, 1987]

Primary references

• Kraatz, G. 1857. Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands. Erste Abtheilung Coleoptera. Zweiter Band. Lieferung 3–6. Berlin: Nicolai, pp. 377–1080. Reference page.  [original description: p. 883]

• Makranczy, G. 2014. Synonymies in the Holarctic Thinobius major and linearis species groups (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae [n.s.] 60(1): 13–38. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [syn. nov., material, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 15, figs. 1, 13, 20–22, 41]

Additional references

• Herman, L.H. 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. III. Oxyteline group. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 1067–1806. Handle Reference page.  [catalog: p. 1751]