Neocollyris smaragdina

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Neocollyris smaragdina
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Neocollyris
Species:
N. smaragdina
Binomial name
Neocollyris smaragdina
(Horn, 1894)

Neocollyris smaragdina is a species of ground beetle in the genus Neocollyris in the family Carabidae. It was described by Horn in 1894.[1]

N. smaragdina was depicted in the 1912 book "Coleoptera: General Introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae" by entomologist William Weekes Fowler[2][3] and described as "very closely allied to N. saphyrina" but on average larger, and having a more narrow pronotum.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Neocollyris W. Horn, 1901". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
  2. ^ Fowler, William Weekes (1912). Coleoptera: General Introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. Taylor & Francis.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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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