6. Eccoptolonthus gastralis (Sharp, 1874)

Sharp, 1874: 48 ( Philonthus, type locality: Japan, Nagasaki); Thaxter, 1908: 424; Bernhauer & Schubert, 1914: 340 ( Philonthus, catalog); Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1344 ( Philonthus, catalog); Lepesme, 1942: 79; Ishikawa 1952: 7; Nakane, 1963: 91 ( Philonthus, characters, habitus image, Japan); Watanabe & Shibata, 1965: 321 (subgenus Bisnius of Philonthus, Japan); Scheloske, 1969: 142 (Japan); Frank, 1982: 41 ( Philonthus, list of parasites); Watanabe, 1995: 256 ( Philonthus, Okushiri-tô Island); Herman, 2001a: 2831 ( Philonthus, catalog); Smetana, 2004: 645 ( Philonthus, catalog of Palaearctic region); Schillhammer, 2015: 24 (transferred to Eccoptolonthus, catalog); Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 1021 ( Eccoptolonthus, catalog).

Materials examined. None.

Distribution. China (exact locality not recorded), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Tsushima Island).