Collartida Explained

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 currently consists of 11 species.

List of species

• Collartida anophthalma Español & Ribes, 1983
• Collartida eowilsoni Davranoglou, Baňař, Malenovský & Kment, 2022^[2]
• Collartida microphthalma Villiers, 1961
• Collartida nigella Linnavuori, 1974
• Collartida oculata Villiers, 1949
• Collartida peregrina Rédei & Tsai, 2010
• Collartida pericarti Villiers, 1968
• Collartida phryne Linnavuori, 1973
• Collartida serapis Linnavuori, 1974
• Collartida tanausu Ribes, Oromi, & Ribes, 1998
• Collartida zephyrus Linnavuori, 1974

Notes and References

1. A survey of the emesine assassin bugs of the tribes Collartidini, Leistarchini, Emesini, and Metapterini of Taiwan (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) . Dávid Rédei & Jing-Fu Tsai . Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift . 57 . 1 . 2010 . 11–36 . 10.1002/mmnd.201000002.
2. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aen.12621