Xenophysella is a genus of moss bug (Peloridiidae). The type species is Xenophysella stewartensis,[1] found only on Stewart Island, off New Zealand.[2]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Superfamily: | Peloridioidea |
Family: | Peloridiidae |
Genus: | Xenophysella Evans, 1982 |
Species
edit- Xenophysella greensladeae Burckhardt, 2009
- Xenophysella stewartensis Woodward, 1952 (=Xenophysella pegasusensis Evans, 1982)
References
edit- ^ 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)". Records of the Australian Museum. 34 (5): 381–406. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.34.1982.296.
- ^ Woodward, T. E. (1952). "Two new species of Peloridiidae from New Zealand with additional locality records for the family". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 6 (2): 181–189.
Other reading
edit- "Xenophysella" at 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.