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The occurrence of A. affinis was confirmed only in the following countries:

- Austria: Zurndorf env., Neusiedl am See env., Stein an der Donau, Krems an der Donau, Wien - Prater (Petrovitz 1956, 1969, Horion 1958, Chromý & Král 1988) - ca. 50 spec.;
- Czech Republic: Prostějov, Lechovice, Miroslav env., Prosiměřice, Novosedly, Pavlovské vrchy hills - Soutěska, Mikulov env. - Na Mušlově, Bulhary - obora, Milovice, Pouzdřany env., Lednice env., Valtice, Ladná, Břeclav - Pohansko, Čejč, Zaječí, Bílé Karpaty Mts. - Velká Javořina hill (Chromý 1985, Král & Souček 1987, Chromý & Král 1988, Král & Vitner 1993,1996, Vitner & Král 1993, Chybík 1997,1998, Juřena et al. 2000,2008) - ca. 850 spec.;
- Slovakia: Bratislava (Král 2008) - 1 spec. (Strupi lgt., probably 19th century);
- Hungary: ?? (Ádám 1994) - 1 or 2 old spec.;
- Ukraine: Гайдари (Král 2008) - ca. 30 spec. (O. A. Novikov lgt., recent records);
- Russia: Катав-Ивановск (Tesař 1945) - 2 spec. (Dr. Jureček lgt., 1917).

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Daniel

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Now I have better map:

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And details in Central Europe:

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Daniel

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Aphodius (Nimbus) affinis (Panzer, 1823)
Aphodius ciliaris Schmidt, 1840 (synonym)
Aphodius ciliatus Dejean, 1833 (synonym)
Aphodius (Nimbus) hoberlandti (Tesar, 1945) (synonym) Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist Nimbus hoberlandti (Tesar, 1945) (accepted name)
http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-c ... d/17005018

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Research Fields
Taxonomy, ecology, biomonitoring , faunistic of Staphylinidae

Honza, why are you citing some non-authoritative dubious website with incompetent data??
And why you mentioned the synonym hoberlandti with a question mark?? I think I made ​​it clear enough the whole issue: A. hoberlandti is a junior subjective synonym of A. affinis, without any doubt - see Ádám 1994! I explained it especially for you a hundred times on Czech, Polish and Italian forums!!!

Reference:
ÁDÁM L. 1994: A check-list of the Hungarian Scarabaeoidea with the description of ten new taxa (Coleoptera). Fol. Entomol. Hung., 55: 5-17.

P.S.: both your specimens (from Katav-Ivanovsk and from Lednice) are typical A. affinis (syn.: hoberlandti) - female from Katav-Ivanovsk and male from Lednice (females differ from males by more and stronger punctated pronotum than males, which is normal for the whole subgenus Nimbus).

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Daniel

Ἦν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον, ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον. (ΚΑΤΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΝ, 1,9)