7. Anotylus nitidifrons (Wollaston, 1871) Wollaston, 1871: 411 (Oxytelus; Type locality: England: St. Helena); Wollaston, 1877: 36 (Oxytelus; characters; St. Helena); Cameron, 1921: 367, 400 (Oxytelus; characters; Singapore); Cameron, 1930: 256 (Oxytelus; subgenus Anotylus; characters; India; Burma); Bernhauer, 1936: 82 (Oxytelus; Philippines); Méquignon, 1942: 17 (Oxytelus; subgenus Anotylus; Azores); Fagel, 1956: 273 (Microxytelus); Jarrige, 1963: 120 (Microxytelus; India); Smetana, 1963: 32 (Oxytelus; subgenus Anotylus; Madeira); Herman, 1970: 419 (Anotylus); Abdullah and Qadri, 1970: 121 (Oxytelus; characters; West Pakistan); Smetana, 1970: 54 (Oxytelus; distributional summary; Azores); Fagel, 1972: 99 (Microxytelus; notes; Sainte Helene); Hammond, 1975: 158, 164 (Anotylus; notes; characters; Ceylon; China; Japan; India; Laos; Java; Vietnam; Mauritius; Madagascar; Madeira; St. Helena; Hawaii; Palau Islands); Hammond, 1976: 176 (Anotylus; notes; adventive species); Herman, 2001: 1373 (Anotylus; catalog); Smetana, 2004: 514 (Anotylus; catalog); Zheng and Pu, 2004: 372 (Anotylus; list); Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 771 (Anotylus; catalog). Syn.: Oxytelus advena Sharp, 1880: 50 (Type locality: Oahu); Fauvel, 1902: 65 (Oxytelus; synonym of nitidifrons); Sharp, 1908: 543 (Oxytelus; Hawaii); Bernhauer and Schubert, 1911: 116 (Oxytelus; synonym of nitidifrons). Distribution: China (Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Hong Kong), Japan, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Europe, Africa.

Published as part of Wang, Lin-Fei & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2020, Taxonomy of Anotylus nitidifrons group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) and five new species from China, pp. 23-42 in Zootaxa 4861 (1) on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4414494