Peloridium

Peloridium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Peloridiidae
Genus: Peloridium
Breddin, 1897

Peloridium is a genus of moss bugs from southern South America, with two known species.[1]

Peloridium hammoniorum was first described in 1897 by Gustav Breddin from a specimen found at Puerto Toro on Navarin Island in Tierra del Fuego.[2] A second species, Peloridium pomponorum, was described in 2014.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Peloridium Breddin, 1897". Coleorrhynch Species File. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Shcherbakov, Dmitry E. (2014). "A new species of Peloridium (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha, Peloridiidae) from Chile" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist. 286: 1–11.
  4. ^ "Peloridium pomponorum Shcherbakov, 2014". Coleorrhynch Species File. Retrieved 16 May 2024.