Peloridium hammoniorum

Peloridium hammoniorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Coleorrhyncha
Family:	Peloridiidae
Genus:	Peloridium Breddin, 1897
Species:	P. hammoniorum
Binomial name
Peloridium hammoniorum Breddin, 1897
Synonyms
Nordenskjoldiella insignis Haglund, 1899

Peloridium hammoniorum is a species of moss bug from southern South America, and is the only known species in the genus Peloridium.

It was first described in 1897 by Gustav Breddin from a specimen found at Puerto Toro on Navarin Island in Tierra del Fuego. A Swedish expedition collected a second specimen in a forest on the Brunswick Peninsula near Punta Arenas, Chile, and Haglund unknowingly described it as a new genus and species (Nordenskjoldiella insignis), but it later proved to be a sub-brachypterous female corresponding with the macropterous male described by Breddin.^[1]

Peloridium hammoniorum is the only Peloridiidae that has both a flying and a flightless form, all others have only flightless forms.^[2]

Notes

1. Carter, Myra W. (1950). "The Family Peloridiidae (Hemiptera) and its Occurrence in New Zealand" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 78 (2): 168–170.
2. (Burckhardt, 2009)

References

• 'Peloridium' at the Encyclopedia of Life
• Breddin, Gustav (1897). Hemipteren (Hemiptera). Ergebnisse der Hamburger magalhaensischen Sammelreise, 1892/93, Zweite Lieferung (Results of the Hamburg Megellan Straits collecting mission, 1892/93, issue 2). Hamburg, Germany: L. Friederichsen & Co. p. 10. OCLC 17434036.; reprinted by De Gruyter, Walter, Inc., ISBN 978-3-11-193100-5
• Burckhardt, Daniel (2009). "Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Gondwanan moss bugs or Peloridiidae (Hemiptera, Coleorrhyncha)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 56 (2): 173–235. doi:10.1002/mmnd.200900019.
• China, William Edward (1927). "LXXV.—A sub-brachypterous male of Peloridium hammoniorum, Breddin (Heteroptera, Peloridiidæ)". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 19 (114): 622–625. doi:10.1080/00222932708655549.
• China, William Edward (1962). "South American Peloridiidae (Hemiptera–Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha)". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 114 (5): 131–161. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1962.tb01077.x.
• D’Urso, V. (1993). "The wing coupling apparatus in Peloridium hammoniorum Breddin, 1897 (Insecta, Rhynchota)". Spixiana. 16 (2): 133–139.
• Evans, John William (1982). "A review of present knowledge of the family Peloridiidae and new genera and new species from New Zealand and New Caledonia (Hemiptera: Insecta)" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 34 (5): 381–406. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.34.1982.296. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 December 2011.
• Haglund, C. J. Emil (1899). "Die Hemipteren der schwedischen Expedition nach den Magellansländern 1895-97". In Nordenskjöld, Otto. Svenska Expeditionen till Magellansländerna 2. pp. 173–180 at pages 176–178.