Ancyla nigricornis Friese, 1902 and Ancyla nitida Friese, 1902

In Ghisbain & Rosa et al. (2023), the name Ancyla nigricornis Friese, 1902 was listed as the valid name for Ancyla nitida Friese, 1902 in Europe following Nieto et al. (2014). The latter taxon was removed from the European checklist considering that it was not possible to check the doubtful record from Cyprus, in line with Varnava et al. (2020) who did not include it in the checklist of Cyprus. However, a review of the literature indicates that Ancyla nigricornis was described from Greece as a variety of Ancyla nitida, this latter taxon being described in the same paper with a locus typicus in Turkey. Ancyla nitida var. nigricornis Friese has been considered in the previous syntheses of this group (Warncke 1979; Baker 1998a; Engel et al. 2017) as a junior synonym of A. nitida . The name of A. nitida should therefore be used for European material previously considered under the name A. nigricornis .