Global InformationPeloridium hammoniorum information
| Peloridium hammoniorum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Family: | Peloridiidae |
| Genus: | Peloridium |
| Species: | P. hammoniorum
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| Binomial name | |
| Peloridium hammoniorum Breddin, 1897
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| Synonyms | |
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Nordenskjoldiella insignis Haglund, 1899 | |
Peloridium hammoniorum is a species of moss bug from southern South America.[1]
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.[2]
Peloridium hammoniorum is the only Peloridiidae that has both a flying and a flightless form, all others have only flightless forms.[3][clarification needed]
- ^ "Peloridium hammoniorum Breddin, 1897". Coleorrhynch Species File. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ (Burckhardt, 2009)