7. Eccoptolonthus proselytus (Herman, 2001)

Herman, 2001b: 47 ( Philonthus, replacement of Philonthus tamulus Tottenham, 1949); Herman, 2001a: 2920 ( Philonthus, catalog); Hromádka, 2010: 497 (transferred to Pseudohesperus, characters); Newton, 2015: 14 (transferred to Eccoptolonthus, catalog).

Syn.: Philonthus tamulus Tottenham, 1949: 358 (type locality: Kivu: Tshibinda; preoccupied, junior primary homonym of Philonthus tamulus Cameron, 1932); Herman, 2001b: 47 (replaced by Philonthus proselytus Herman, 2001).

Distribution: Congo, India, Zaire.