Peloridium hammoniorum

Peloridium hammoniorum
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

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]}