Hemiodoecus

Hemiodoecus is a genus of moss bug. It was first identified from a northwestern Tasmania specimen by William Edward China in 1924, and Hemiodoecus leai became the type species. In 1982, Evans concluded that Hemiodoecus was, of known genera, the earliest evolved Australian genus of the Peloridiidae, based upon morphology and distribution. He further suggested that it gave rise to the genera Hemiowoodwardia and Hackeriella, both of which he had originally classified as Hemiodoecus.

Hemiodoecus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Superfamily:	Peloridioidea
Family:	Peloridiidae
Genus:	Hemiodoecus China, 1924

Species

Accepted species

• Hemiodoecus crassus Burckhardt, 2009 Australia
• Hemiodoecus acutus Burckhardt, 2009 Australia
• Hemiodoecus leai China, 1924 Tasmania

Other species named

• Hemiodoecus donnae Woodward, 1956 is a junior synonym of Hemiodoecellus fidefis
• Hemiodoecus fidefis Evans is now Hemiodoecellus fidefis
• Hemiodoecus veitchi Hacker, 1932 is now Hackeriella veitchi
• Hemiodoecus wilsoni Evans, 1936 is now Hemiowoodwardia wilsoni

References

• "Hemiodoecus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• Burckhardt, Daniel (2009). "Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Gondwanan moss bugs or Peloridiidae (Hemiptera, Coleorrhyncha)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 56 (2): 173–235. doi:10.1002/mmnd.200900019.
• China, William Edward (1924). "A new genus of Peloridiidae (Hemiptera) from Tasmania". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 60: 199–203.
• China, William Edward (1932). "On the occurrence of the peloridiid genus Hemiodoecus in Queensland". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 10 (58): 392–395. doi:10.1080/00222933208673587.
• Evans, John William (1982). "A review of present knowledge of the family Peloridiidae and new genera and new species from New Zealand and New Caledonia (Hemiptera: Insecta)" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 34 (5): 381–406. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.34.1982.296. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 December 2011.
• Helmsing, I. W.; China, William Edward (1937). "On the biology and ecology of Hemiodoecus veitchi Hacker". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 19 (10): 473–489. doi:10.1080/00222933708655289.
• Müller, H. J. (1951). "Uber die intrazellulare symbiose der Peloridiidae Hemiodoecus fidefis Evans und ihre steliung unter den Homopterensymbiosen". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 146: 150–167.
• Myers, John Golding; China, William Edward (1929). "The systematic position of the Peloridiidae as elucidated by a further study of the external anatomy of Hemiodoecus leadi China". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 105 (3): 282–294. doi:10.1080/00222932908672971.
• Woodward, Thomas E. (1956). "On Australian and New Zealand Peloridiidae (Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha)". Papers of the Department of Entomology University of Queensland. 1 (3): 31–56.