Peloridium hammoniorum explained

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]

References

• • Book: 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). L. Friederichsen & Co.. Hamburg, Germany. 10. 17434036. ; reprinted by De Gruyter, Walter, Inc.,
• Burckhardt. Daniel. 2009. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Gondwanan moss bugs or Peloridiidae (Hemiptera, Coleorrhyncha). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 56. 2. 173–235. 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. 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. 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). Records of the Australian Museum. 34. 5. 381–406. 10.3853/j.0067-1975.34.1982.296. https://web.archive.org/web/20111205093159/http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Journals/17574/296_complete.pdf. 5 December 2011. live.
• Book: Haglund, C. J. Emil. 1899. Die Hemipteren der schwedischen Expedition nach den Magellansländern 1895-97. Nordenskjöld, Otto. Svenska Expeditionen till Magellansländerna 2. 173 - 180 at pages 176 - 178.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Peloridium hammoniorum Breddin, 1897. Coleorrhynch Species File . 16 May 2024.
2. Carter, Myra W.. 1950. The Family Peloridiidae (Hemiptera) and its Occurrence in New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 78. 2. 168 - 170.
3. (Burckhardt, 2009)