Peloridium hammoniorum
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Peloridium hammoniorum is a species of moss bug from southern South America.[1]
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Peloridium hammoniorum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Family: | Peloridiidae |
Genus: | Peloridium |
Species: | P. hammoniorum |
Binomial name | |
Peloridium hammoniorum Breddin, 1897 | |
Synonyms | |
Nordenskjoldiella insignis Haglund, 1899 |
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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]