Channel-headed Tiger Beetle

Cylindera collicia is a species of tiger beetle endemic to southern India. About 8 to 9.5 mm long, it is found in forested habitats in the Western Ghats. It is attracted to lights at night.

Cylindera collicia has been called the channel-headed tiger beetle and was once treated as a subspecies of Cylindera viridilabris but it has a distinctive head sculpturing. It is also closely related to Cylindera severini which has a distribution range extending further northwards. The pronotum is coppery brown and the sides are metallic green. The elytra are dark coppery brown and there is an iridescent blue-green crescent at the shoulder and four whitish spots on each elytron. It is seen mainly in the summer prior to the monsoons.