XXXVII.—The systematic position of the Peloridiidæ as elucidated by a further study of the external anatomy of Hemiodœcus leai, China (Hemiptera, Peloridiidæ)

18S rRNA Secondary Structure and Phylogenetic Position of Peloridiidae (Insecta, Hemiptera)

“…Breddin (1897) first placed Peloridiidae in Heteroptera. Myers and China (1929) transferred them to Homoptera, as members of a newly created series, the Coleorhyncha. China (1962) later suggested transferring them to Auchenorrhyncha.…”

The first Progonocimicidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber

“…Th e male genital segment of Ilahulgabalus somewhat resembles in general structure male genital segments in recent Peloridiidae (Myers & China 1929;Evans 1982;Yang & Chang 2000: Burckardt 2009. A barrel-shaped pygofer is a general feature of the Coleorrhyncha, but in Ilahulgabalus it is lacking the ventral processes and lateral projections (a feature of the Progonocimicoidea) present in the modern Peloridiidae (Peloridioidea).…”

“…Hemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 Coleorrhyncha Myers et China, 1929Progonocimicoidea Handlirsch, 1906Progonocimicidae Handlirsch, 1906Cicadocorinae Becker-Migdisova, 1958 Ilahulgabalus gen.n.…”

“…Th e suborder Coleorrhyncha Myers et China, 1929, also known as the 'moss bugs', is of special interest within the Hemiptera, because of its long evolutionary history, interesting morphological features and the limited distribution of its recent representatives (Evans 1982;Popov & Shcherbakov 1996;Burckhardt 2000;Grimaldi & Engel 2005;Burckhardt 2009; Wang et al 2009). Th e relationship of the Coleorrhyncha to the remainder of the Hemiptera is of particular interest as this group was postulated to be the sister-taxon to the suborder Heteroptera (Schlee 1969;Sorensen et al 1995;Ouvrard et al 2000;Bourgoin & Campbell 2002;Yang 2002;Schaefer 2003;Brożek 2007;Xie et al 2008;Burckhardt 2009;Wang et al 2009).…”

Circumscriptional names of higher taxa in Hexapoda

“…However, the name they introduced was STERNORHYNCHI Amyot & Serville, 1843, not Sternorrhyncha. Both STERNORHYNCHA Fieber, 1851 andSTERNORRHYNCHA Meyers &China, 1929 are subsequent emendations of the name Sternorhynchi and should be used with their own authorships. All three were proposed to refer to the same taxon and are therefore circumscriptional synonyms, being junior synonyms of PLANTISUGA Duméril, 1806.…”