Philonthus ovicollis, Broun, 1880: 109

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ovicollis Broun, 1880: 109 ( Staphylinus ; Type locality: Whangarei Harbour).

— Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914: 347 ( Philonthus ; synonym of nigritulus ).

— Cameron, 1932: 147 ( Philonthus ; synonym of nigritulus ).

— Cameron, 1945d: 786 ( Philonthus ; subgenus Gabrius ; near nigritulus ).

— Smetana, 1958: 249 ( Gabrius ; synonym of nigritulus ).

— Smetana, 1960c: 325 ( Gabrius ; synonym of nigritulus ).

— Smetana, 1995e: 620 ( Gabrius ; synonym of nigritulus ).

nanellus Casey, 1915: 440 ( Philonthus ; Type locality: northern Illinois: Highland Park; [Note: See lectotype designation by Smetana, 1995e]).

— Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1352 ( Philonthus ; catalog).

— Moore, 1965: 100 ( Gabrius ).

— Smetana, 1995e: 620 ( Gabrius ; lectotype designation; synonym of nigritulus ).

— Downie and Arnett, 1996: 382 ( Gabrius ; characters; USA).

magniceps Smetana, 1952b: 122 , 132 ( Gabrius ; variety of nigritulus ; [preoccupied]; Type locality: Boh., Roudnice n. L.).

— Smetana, 1958: 249 ( Gabrius ; synonym of nigritulus ).

— Smetana, 1960c: 325 ( Gabrius ; synonym of nigritulus ).

— Coiffait, 1974: 54 ( Gabrius ; synonym of nigritulus ).

— Smetana, 1995e: 620 ( Gabrius ; synonym of nigritulus ).

signiceps Smetana, 1954: 41 ( Gabrius ; variety of nigritulus ; replacement name for magniceps Smetana ).

— Smetana, 1957: 67, 69 ( Gabrius ; characters).

— Smetana, 1958: 249 ( Gabrius ; synonym of nigritulus ).

— Smetana, 1960c: 325 ( Gabrius ; synonym of nigritulus ).

— Scheerpeltz, 1965b: 403 ( Gabrius ; variety of nigritulus ; Sicily).

— Scheerpeltz, 1965c: 507 ( Gabrius ; variety of nigritulus ; Sicily).

— Coiffait, 1974: 54 ( Gabrius ; characters; variety of nigritulus ).

— Tóth, 1984: 91 ( Gabrius ; variety of nigritulus ).

— Smetana, 1995e: 620 ( Gabrius ; synonym of nigritulus ).

nitetis Tottenham, 1956: 301 ( Gabrius ; Type locality: Ruanda: terr. Ruhengeri , Kagogo,

1900 m).

- DISTRIBUTION: Rwanda.

noei Coiffait, 1966c: 506 ( Gabrius ; Type locality: Turquie d’Asie : Mont Ararat, 3000 m).

— Coiffait, 1974: 57 ( Gabrius ; characters; Turkey).

- DISTRIBUTION: Turkey.

normandi Smetana, 1956: 78 ( Gabrius ; Type locality: Nord-Afrika , Algerien, Edough).

— Smetana, 1957: 57 ( Gabrius ; characters; Algeria).

— Smetana, 1961: 36 ( Gabrius ; characters; Algeria).

— Coiffait, 1964c: 168 ( Gabrius ; characters; Algeria; Morocco; Portugal?).

— Coiffait, 1974: 73 ( Gabrius ; characters; Algeria; Morocco; Portugal?).

- DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Morocco, Portugal?.

novellus Tottenham, 1956b: 208 , 213 ( Gabrius ; [Note: Cited as novus Cameron on pages 208 and 213 but renamed as a new species according to footnote on page 213]; Type locality: Angola).

- DISTRIBUTION: Angola.

novus Cameron, 1935a: 375 ( Philonthus ; subgenus Gabrius ; Type locality: Mahagi: Nialopul).

— Tottenham, 1956: 306 ( Gabrius ; characters in key).

- DISTRIBUTION: Congo.

obenbergeri Smetana, 1953a: 165 ( Gabrius ; Type locality: Yugoslavia: Sarajevo ).

— Smetana, 1953: 119 ( Gabrius ; notes on species group placement).

— Smetana, 1957: 59 ( Gabrius ; characters; Yugoslavia).

— Smetana, 1961: 39 ( Gabrius ; characters; Yugoslavia; Bulgaria).

— Mannerheim, 1831: 443 ( Staphylinus ; Finland; Sweden).

— Lacordaire, 1835: 404 ( Staphylinus ; characters; France).

— Nordmann, 1837: 93 ( Philonthus ; Europe).

— Erichson, 1839a: 470 ( Philonthus ; characters; Germany).

— Heer, 1839: 268 ( Philonthus ; characters; Switzerland).

— Stephens, 1839: 400 ( Gabrius ; characters; England).

— Erichson, 1840: 478 ( Philonthus ; characters; Europe).

— Laporte, 1840: 178 ( Staphylinus ; characters; France).

— Grimm, 1845: 135 ( Philonthus ; with Formica rufa ; Germany).

— Jacobsen, 1849: 701 ( Philonthus ; characters; Denmark).

— Hochhuth, 1849: 140 ( Philonthus ; characters).

— Redtenbacher, 1849: 705 ( Philonthus ; characters; Austria).

— Küster, 1854: 13 ( Philonthus ; characters; Germany).

— Fairmaire and Laboulbène, 1856: 523 ( Philonthus ; characters; France).

— Kraatz, 1857d: 606 ( Philonthus ; characters; Germany).

— Redtenbacher, 1857: 195 ( Philonthus ; characters; Austria).

— Peyron, 1858: 426 ( Philonthus ; Turkey).

— Thomson, 1860: 170 ( Gabrius ; characters; Scandinavia).

— Hochhuth, 1862: 62 ( Philonthus ; Russia).

— Fauvel, 1874: 261 [= 1874a: 487] ( Philonthus ; characters; France; Sardinia; Turkey; Georgia; Caucasus; Lake Baikal).

— Redtenbacher, 1874: 214 ( Philonthus ; characters; Austria).

— Seidlitz, 1875: 276 ( Philonthus ; characters; Baltic region).

— Mulsant and Rey, 1876: 538 [= 1877: 394] ( Gabrius ; characters; France).

— J. Sahlberg, 1876: 23 ( Gabrius ; Finland).

— Fowler, 1888: 274 ( Philonthus ; characters; Britain).

— Ganglbauer, 1895: 459 ( Philonthus ; subgenus Gabrius ; characters; Europe; Siberia ).

— Montandon, 1908: 80 ( Philonthus ; Romania).

— Reitter, 1909: 131 ( Philonthus ; characters; Germany).

— Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914: 360 ( Philonthus ; catalog).

— Johansen, 1914: 416 ( Philonthus ; subgenus Gabrius ; characters; Denmark).

— Gridelli, 1920: 127 ( Gabrius ; characters; Italy).

— Gridelli, 1928: 50 ( Gabrius ; characters in key).

— Portevin, 1929: 366 ( Philonthus ; characters; France).

— Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1367 ( Philonthus ; catalog).

— Wüsthoff, 1934: 61 ( Philonthus ; illustration of aedeagus).

— V. Hansen, 1952: 84 ( Philonthus ; subgenus Gabrius ; characters; Denmark).

— Smetana, 1957: 58 ( Gabrius ; characters; Europe to Siberia ).

— Smetana, 1958: 235 ( Gabrius ; characters; ecology; Czechoslovakia).

— Smetana, 1961: 38 ( Gabrius ; characters).

— Smetana, 1961a: 43 ( Gabrius ; Bulgaria).

— Palm, 1963b: 103 ( Philonthus ; subgenus Gabrius ; characters; Sweden; Denmark; Norway; Finland).

— Lohse, 1964: 187 ( Gabrius ; characters; central Europe).

— Horion, 1965: 183 ( Gabrius ; Russia; Finland; Sweden; Norway; Britain; Denmark; widespread in all central Europe; Spain; Italy; Dalmatia; Bosnia).

— Pototskaia, 1966: 154 ( Gabrius ; larval characters).

— Pototskaia, 1967: 56 ( Gabrius ; larval characters).

— Szujecki, 1968a: 732 ( Gabrius ; Poland).

— Coiffait, 1974: 71 ( Gabrius ; characters; Europe; Scandinavia; Siberia ; France; Corsica).

— Pope, 1977: 30 ( Gabrius ; synonym of osseticus ).

— Tóth, 1984: 83 ( Gabrius ; characters; Hungary).

— Lucht, 1987: 106 ( Gabrius ; checklist; Germany; Poland; Czechoslovakia; Austria; Switzerland; France; Benelux; Denmark; Sweden).

— Lohse and Lucht, 1989: 168 ( Gabrius ; synonym of osseticus ).

— Smetana, 1993b: 49 ( Gabrius ; synonym of osseticus ).

— Drugmand, 1994b ( Gabrius ; aberrant aedeagus).

— Ciceroni and Zanetti, 1995: 29 ( Gabrius ; synonym of osseticus ).

— Ádám, 1996: 245 ( Gabrius ; synonym of osseticus ).

suaveolens Stephens, 1833: 249 ( Gabrius ; [Note: This name is older than osseticus ]; Type locality: Hertford, banks of Lea River).

— Stephens, 1839: 400 ( Gabrius ; characters; England).

— Hardy, 1851: 29 ( Philonthus ; synonym of varians ).

— G. Waterhouse, 1858: 25 ( Philonthus ; synonym of vernalis ).

— Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914: 360 ( Philonthus ; synonym of vernalis ).

— Tottenham, 1939d: 231 ( Gabrius ; synonym of ventralis ).

— Smetana, 1958: 235 ( Gabrius ; synonym of vernalis ).

— Coiffait, 1974: 71 ( Gabrius ; synonym of vernalis ).

— Herman, 2001: 25 ( Gabrius ; synonym of osseticus ).

flavipes Motschulsky, 1860: 567 ( Gabrius ; [Note: Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914 cited this name as a synonym of femoralis (p. 337) and vernalis (p. 360). Most recently Schillhammer, 1997: 80 listed it as a synonym of osseticus ]; Type locality: Géorgie méridionale près de la frontière de Perse).

— Hochhuth, 1862: 61 ( Philonthus ; characters; Georgia).

— Fauvel, 1874: 261 [= 1874a: 487] ( Philonthus ; synonym of vernalis ).

— Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914: 337 ( Philonthus ; synonym of femoralis ).

— Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914: 360 ( Philonthus ; synonym of vernalis ).

— Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1342 ( Philonthus ; synonym of femoralis ).

— Coiffait, 1951: 107, 114 ( Gabrius ; cited as valid species; characters in key; France).

— Smetana, 1958: 235, 236 ( Gabrius ; synonym of vernalis [235] and femoralis [236]).

— Coiffait, 1974: 71 ( Gabrius ; synonym of vernalis ).

— Schillhammer, 1997: 80 ( Gabrius ; synonym of osseticus ).

flavimanus Gemminger and Harold, 1868: 588 ( Philonthus ; replacement for flavipes Motschulsky ).

— Fauvel, 1874: 261 [= 1874a: 487] ( Philonthus ; synonym of vernalis ).

— Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914: 360 ( Philonthus ; synonym of vernalis ).

— Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1342 ( Philonthus ; synonym of femoralis ).

— Smetana, 1958: 235, 236 ( Gabrius ; synonym of vernalis [235] and femoralis [236]).

— Coiffait, 1974: 71 ( Gabrius ; synonym of femoralis ).

— Schillhammer, 1997: 77 ( Gabrius ; synonym of femoralis ).

ottawensis Casey, 1915 , see: punctatellus Horn, 1884 .

ovaliceps Fall, 1930: 253 ( Philonthus ; Type locality: Three Mile Island, Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H.; also listed from Massachusett and Virginia).

— Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1354 ( Philonthus ; catalog).

— Moore, 1965: 100 ( Gabrius ).

— Smetana, 1995e: 676 ( Gabrius ; characters; notes; Ontario; Connecticut; Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Missouri; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; North Carolina; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; Texas; Vermont; Virginia;

West Virginia).

- DISTRIBUTION: Canada, USA.

multipunctatus Blatchley, 1910: 389 ( Philonthus ; [Note: Preoccupied as a secondary homonym in Philonthus ]; Type locality: Lawrence County, Indiana).

— Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914: 347 ( Philonthus ; catalog).

— Blatchley, 1936: 256 ( Philonthus ; synonym of kessleri ).

— Smetana, 1995e: 676 ( Gabrius ; synonym of ovaliceps ).

kessleri Blatchley, 1936: 256 ( Philonthus ; replacement name for multipunctatus Blatchley ).

— Smetana, 1995e: 676 ( Gabrius ; synonym of ovaliceps ).

— Downie and Arnett, 1996: 381 ( Philonthus ; characters; USA).