Genus Kallitaxila Kirkaldy
Kallitaxila granulata (Stål)
Genus Kallitaxila Kirkaldy 1901: 6
Type species: Taxila granulata Stål,
by original designation.
Synonyms:
Taxila Stål 1870,
preoccupied by
Taxila Doubleday 1847
Kallitaxila Kirkaldy 1901:
6, nom. nov. for Taxila Stål
Taxillana Melichar 1914:
90, nom. nov. for Taxila Stål, synonymised by Muir 1931: 74
Known species: A dozen species are known, distributed between the Philippines and China with a single species, K. granulata, in the Philippines and Christmas Island.
Comments: The occurrence of K. granulata on Christmas Island is somewhat anomalous with the distribution of the genus generally and the species in particular. Further collections in S.E. Asia, particularly those parts of Indonesia closest to Christmas Island, will determine whether the species is likely to have been introduced to the island or if its presence there represents the southern limit of a more widely distributed species than the current records show.