''Peloridium hammoniorum'' is a

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of moss bug from southern

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, and is the only known species in the genus ''Peloridium''. It was first described in 1897 by Gustav Breddin from a specimen found at

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on Navarin Island in

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. A

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expedition collected a second specimen in a forest on the Brunswick Peninsula near

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, 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. ''Peloridium hammoniorum'' is the only Peloridiidae that has both a flying and a flightless form, all others have only flightless forms.(Burckhardt, 2009)

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