Collartida

Collartida
Collartida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Emesinae
Tribe: Collartidini
Genus: Collartida
Villiers, 1949

Collartida is a genus of assassin bugs. The genus was thought to be restricted to Africa, Israel and the Canary Islands, but a newly discovered species was recently reported from Taiwan (in 2010).[1] The genus now consists of 9 species.

Partial list of species

  • Collartida oculata Villiers, 1949
  • Collartida peregrina Rédei & Tsai, 2010
  • Collartida pericarti Villiers, 1968

References

  1. ^ Dávid Rédei & Jing-Fu Tsai (2010). "A survey of the emesine assassin bugs of the tribes Collartidini, Leistarchini, Emesini, and Metapterini of Taiwan (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 57 (1): 11–36. doi:10.1002/mmnd.201000002. 


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