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Miscellaneous Insecta Species File
Family

Peloridiidae Breddin, 1897

Gondwanan moss bugs

Type

type genus of Peloridiidae Breddin, 1897

Nomenclature (23)

  • Peloridiidae Breddin, 1897: 10.

    type genus Peloridium Breddin, 1897

  • Peloridiidae Breddin, 1897 in Myers & China, 1929: 293. Phylogeny
  • Peloridiidae Breddin, 1897 in Hartung, 2018 Phylogeny
  • Peloridiidae Breddin, 1897 in Ye, Damgaard, Burckhardt, Gibbs, Yuan, Yang & Bu, 2019 Phylogeny

Nomenclature references (23)

  • Breddin, G. (1897) Hemipteren. In Ergebnisse der Hamburger magalhaensischen Sammelreise, 1892/93, 2. L. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg, Germany. pp. 1–36.
  • Myers, J.G. & China, W.E. (1929) The systematic position of the Peloridiidae as elucidated by a further study of the external anatomy of Hemiodoecus leai, China (Hemiptera, Peloridiidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3(37), 282–294. [in English] https://doi.org/10.1080/00222932908672971
  • Evans, J.W. (1938) The morphology of the head of Homoptera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1937, 1–20.
  • Evans, J.W. (1941) Concerning the Peloridiidae. Australian Journal of Science, 4, 95–97.
  • Carter, M.W. (1950) The family Peloridiidae (Hemiptera) and its occurrence in New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 78(2), 167–170.
  • Evans, J.W. (1956) Some ancient bugs. The Australian Museum Magazine, 12, 78–80.
  • Woodward, T.E. (1958) A new species of Peloridiidae with a key to New Zealand species. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 85, 637–693.
  • China, W.E. (1962) South American Peloridiidae (Hemiptera-Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 114(5), 131–161.
  • Evans, J.W. (1967) The biogeographical significance of the Peloridiidae (Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha) and a new species from Lord Howe Island. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 79, 17–24. [1968]
  • Evans, J.W. (1972) A new species of Peloridiidae from North Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 83, 83–88. [1971]
  • Evans, J.W. (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. Available at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/Evans-1982-Rec-Aust-Mus-345-381406
  • Estevez, A.L. & de Remes Lenicov, A.M.M. (1988) Pelorididos de Tierra del Fuego (Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha). Neotropica (La Plata), 34, Supp. 92, 104.
  • Ouvrard, D., Campbell, B.C., Bourgoin, T. & Chan, K.L. (2000) 18s rRNA secondary structure and phylogenetic position of Peloridiidae (Insecta, Hemiptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 16(3), 403–417.
  • Burckhardt, D. (2009) Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Gondwanan moss bugs or Peloridiidae (Hemiptera, Coleorrhyncha). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 56(2), 173–235.
  • Burckhardt, D. (2010) Mooswanzen - Peloridiidae (Hemiptera, Coleorrhyncha), eine enigmatische Insektengruppe. Entomologica Austriaca, 17, 9–22.
  • Lariviere, M.-C., Burckhardt, D. & Larochelle, A. (2011) Peloridiida (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha). Fauna of New Zealand, 67, 10–74.
  • Szwedo, J. (2011) The Coleorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera) of the European Jurassic, with a description of a new genus from the Toarcian of Luxembourg. Volumina Jurassica, 9, 3–20.
  • Kuechler, S.M., Gibbs, G.W., Burckhardt, D., Dettner, K. & Hartung, V. (2013) Diversity of bacterial endosymbionts and bacteria-host co-evolution in Gondwanan relict moss bugs (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha: Peloridiidae). Environmental Microbiology, 15(7), 2031–2042.
  • Kuechler, S.M. (2014) Neue Erkenntnisse uber die endosymbiontischen Strukturen in Wanzen (Heteroptera) und Mooswanzen (Coleorrhyncha: Peloridiidae). Heteropteron, 42, 10–14.
  • Wakelin, M.D. & Lariviere, M.-C. (2014) First New Zealand record of the Australian species Hemiodoecus leai China, 1924 (Hemiptera: Peloridiidae); a hitchhiker on moss. Zootaxa, 3884(1), 95–100.
  • Hartung, V., Medebach, I. & Walheim, S. (2016) Structural plastron in relict Gondwanan moss bugs (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha: Peloridiidae) and its possible implications for systematics, biogeography and for the standard definition of plastron. Arthropod Structure & Development, 45(5), 422–431.
  • Hartung, V. (2018) Systematik der Peloridiidae (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha) - ein integrativer Ansatz. Heteropteron, 53, 10–11.
  • Ye, Z., Damgaard, J., Burckhardt, D., Gibbs, G.W., Yuan, J., Yang, H. & Bu, W. (2019) Phylogeny and historical biogeography of Gondwanan moss-bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha: Peloridiidae). Cladistics, 35(2), 135–149.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Family1001
Genus170522
Species3701552