Collyris

Overview

*Collyris* Fabricius, 1801 is a slender, metallic tiger beetle of South and Southeast Asian forests, instantly recognisable by its strikingly elongate, cylindrical body — an adaptation to life on the bark of trees rather than the ground. Adults patrol rain-dampened trunks and branches in diurnal forays, while larvae develop hidden within burrows excavated in bark. The genus ranges from India and Sri Lanka through Indochina and the Malay Peninsula into the Sundaland archipelago and the Philippines, encompassing roughly ten described species.

Type species: Cicindela longicollis Fabricius, 1798 [by subsequent designation]

1. Wiesner, J. (2020) — checklist authority 2. Fabricius, J.C. (1801) — original genus description 3. Naviaux, R. (multiple papers) — Collyridini revisions 4. Pearson, D.L., Wiesner, J., Uniyal, V.P., Acciavatti, R.E. & Anichtchenko, A. (2020) — Field Guide India 5. Naviaux, R. (1991) — Les Cicindèles de Thaïlande. Bulletin mensuel Soc. linnéenne Lyon 60(7): 209-288. DOI: 10.3406/linly.1991.10944 6. Naviaux, R. & Pinratana, A. (2004) — The Tiger Beetles of Thailand. Sunpriting, 177 pp. 7. Duran, D.P. & Gough, H.M. (2020) — Validation of tiger beetles as distinct family (Cicindelidae) and reclassification within Coleoptera. Systematic Entomology 45(4): 723-729. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12440 [validates Cicindelidae as separate family] 8. Gough, H.M., Duran, D.P., Kawahara, A.Y. & Toussaint, E.F.A. (2018) — A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). Systematic Entomology 43(3): 567-586. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12324 [ML phylogeny of 328 taxa, 9 gene regions] 9. Wiesner, J. (2020) — Checklist of the Tiger Beetles of the World, 2nd edition (Verzeichnis der Sandlaufkäfer der Welt, 27. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Cicindelidae). Winterwork, Borsdorf, 534 pp. [Authoritative current world checklist] +10 citations · full list in paid edition