Peloridium hammoniorum
| Peloridium hammoniorum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Coleorrhyncha |
| Family: | Peloridiidae |
| Genus: |
Peloridium Breddin, 1897 |
| Species: | P. hammoniorum |
| Binomial name | |
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Peloridium hammoniorum Breddin, 1897 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Nordenskjoldiella insignis Haglund, 1899 |
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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.
Peloridium hammoniorum is the only Peloridiidae that has both a flying and a flightless form, all others have only flightless forms.
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