Neocollyris smaragdina

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Neocollyris smaragdina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Cicindelidae
Tribe: Collyridini
Genus: Neocollyris
Species:
N. smaragdina
Binomial name
Neocollyris smaragdina
(Horn, 1894)

Neocollyris smaragdina is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Horn in 1894. [1] [2]

N. smaragdina was depicted in the 1912 book "Coleoptera: General Introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae" by entomologist William Weekes Fowler [3] [4] and described as "very closely allied to N. saphyrina " but on average larger, and having a more narrow pronotum. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Neocollyris smaragdina (W.Horn, 1894)". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  2. ↑ Duran, Daniel P.; Gough, Harlan M. (2020). "Validation of tiger beetles as distinct family (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), review and reclassification of tribal relationships". Systematic Entomology. 45 (4): 723–729. Bibcode:2020SysEn..45..723D. doi: 10.1111/syen.12440 .
  3. ↑ Fowler, William Weekes (1912). Coleoptera: General Introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. Taylor & Francis.
  4. ↑ Fowler, W. W. (1977). Coleoptera: general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. New Delhi: Today & Tomorrow's Printers.
  5. ↑ Internet Archive Book Images (1912-01-01), Image from page 281 of "Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae" (1912) , retrieved 2020-08-15


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