A new species of Collartida Villiers from the Solomon Islands (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)

Abstract In the present study, Collartida eowilsoni sp. nov. is described from Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), which extends the distribution of the genus and the tribe Collartidini as a whole to the Oceanian biogeographic realm. The highly aberrant morphology of the new species required a reassessment of the diagnostic characters and generic limits of Collartida . To evaluate the systematic position of C. eowilsoni sp. nov. a morphology‐based cladistic analysis was performed, for which homologies of cephalic armature were reinterpreted. Phylogenetic relationships of the new species to its congeners and among other members of the tribe are discussed.