The Collartidini is a tribe of thread-legged bugs restricted to

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. Wygodzinsky (1966) proposed that this group is the sister group of the remaining

Emesinae The Emesinae, or thread-legged bugs, are a subfamily of the Reduviidae (i.e., assassin bugs). They are conspicuously different from the other reduviids by their very slender body form. They are stalking, predatory insects that can be collected on ...

List of genera

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Collartida ''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). The genus now consists of 10 species. Lis ...

'' Villiers, 1949 *'' Mangabea'' Villiers, 1970 *'' Stenorhamphus'' Elkins, 1962

References

Reduviidae Hemiptera tribes {{Cimicomorpha-stub