Adults are about 13 mm long.
Fine-art photographic collection
Neocollyris celebensis
A Sulawesi tiger beetle stretched into a twig-thin hunting shape for moving through vegetation.
About this species
Neocollyris celebensis(Chaudoir, 1861)
Information reviewed15 July 2026
Neocollyris celebensis is an arboreal tiger beetle from Sulawesi. Instead of the broad ground-running form familiar from many tiger beetles, it has a long cylindrical body and an extended neck-like thorax that allow it to move around stems and leaves while keeping the eyes and jaws at the leading tip.
Taxonomy
Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Coleoptera · Carabidae · Cicindelinae · Neocollyris
Accepted taxon. · checked 2026-07-15
Sulawesi, IndonesiaBroad range and selected reference localities — not a complete occurrence map.
Sulawesi, Indonesia
Tropical forest foliage, stems and low trunks.
Diurnal semi-arboreal predator.
Small insects on vegetation.
Solitary.
What makes this species remarkable?
The thorax is drawn out into a long neck-like tube, separating the head from the abdomen far more than in ordinary ground-running tiger beetles.
Its narrow cylindrical body can pass around stems and through foliage with much less obstruction than a broad flattened body.
The enlarged eyes and forward-pointing jaws remain concentrated at the front, turning the entire insect into a slender visual hunting probe in vegetation.